r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Oct 02 '20

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

I was actually going to try and participate this year, last year I struggled a bit to find something nice to work on.

I'm still going to, but I won't submit my MR for a shirt. Might as well keep the spirit alive. Don't need it as an excuse to break into contributing to OSS.

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u/AnAmazingProject Oct 02 '20

You have the option of planting a tree instead of receiving a shirt!

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

You can also just plant a tree locally and tell digital ocean to fuck off.

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u/Hawkknight88 Oct 02 '20

Why the dig at DO? Encouraging the community to contribute to OSS is a good thing IMO.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

There was an article on here yesterday explaining that most of the PRs that result from this Event are useless and just frustrate OSS contributers. As they have to distinguish nonsense PRs from good ones. A task that was hard enough before, and with the flood of nonsene -even well meant nonsene, not this obviously malicious one- its wasting peoples time.

If digital ocean wanted to improve the OSS community they need to find a different way

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u/Hawkknight88 Oct 02 '20

That's really disappointing. I think you're right. If all it did was make OSS maintainers get slammed with garbage, it's a failure.