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That's what happened for me in a way. My first PRs were stuff like fixing dead links, typos, stuff like that. Now I regularly do PRs to fix stuff that's broken,
by Zababa 4y ago
That's what happened for me in a way. My first PRs were stuff like fixing dead links, typos, stuff like that. Now I regularly do PRs to fix stuff that's broken, either code or documentation.
- jhugo 4y agoMost of the hacktoberfest PRs were adding typos though.
- Zababa 4y agoThat's true, hence my "in a way". My contributions and the "an amazing project" contributions are not the same. There are lots of open source projects that have some infrastructure in place to help new people get their first PR, which will be more meaningful than a spam PR. Here's one example: https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ https://www.firsttimersonly.com/. I'll encourage anyone reading this that never contributed to a project to give it a try. People are very welcoming, helpful, and at least for me it makes me very happy every time I get a PR merged.
- duskwuff 4y agoI'd generalize a bit and say that a lot of the Hacktoberfest spam PRs were limited to adding non-informational content to README files -- adding adjectives like "great" or "awesome", or phrases like "we hope you enjoy it" or "have a nice day", etc. Nothing that actually demonstrated any familiarity with the project or an intent to improve it, let alone anything that actually touched the code of the project.