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I think a better description would be how Hacktoberfest turned out, with lots of inexperienced people spamming simple PRs to lots of projects.
by matsemann 5y ago
I think a better description would be how Hacktoberfest turned out, with lots of inexperienced people spamming simple PRs to lots of projects.
- arp242 5y agoYou'd hope that in a more guided environment where people are actually rated on the quality of the contributions things wouldn't be quite so bad. But yeah, I'm not looking forward to a future where every inexperienced student needs to be guided through the basics. There is already quite a lot (too much, IMO) being put in the shoes of volunteer maintainers with very little concrete in return, and this will only add to that. To put it bluntly, I am not your unpaid teaching assistant, and would consider it dubious if I was used as such without consent.
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