Pull requests here won’t count toward Hacktoberfest. #146

hacktoberfest-team · 2020-09-30T07:56:28Z

Hi there,

Thank you for your interest in Hacktoberfest and in helping others make their first contributions to open source.

While we agree that it's important to help others, this repository does not do this in a way that is in line with the Hacktoberfest values. Please read the part that talks about high-quality contributions to understand why we are reaching out and taking action. Due to this, we've added this repository to the list of excluded repositories which means pull requests here will not count toward Hacktoberfest 2020.

This is not a DigitalOcean decision, it's one that is inspired by the community of maintainers and contributors who all agree that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to engagement in the Open Source community. The values remind us to shift the focus from contributions to repositories that encourage folks to quickly create and gain a pull request to contributions that will help people level-up their skills and contribute to open-source projects that are in need of help.

If you feel that this repository is an effective learning resource, we encourage you to keep running it since a core part of the aim for Hacktoberfest is to encourage new folks to get involved with open-source.

However, if you are interested in having contributions to this repo count toward Hacktoberfest we encourage you to take a look at this list of Hacktoberfest issues for inspiration and make the necessary changes to focus on enabling people to make meaningful contributions to open source projects.

If you have any questions about this or participating in Hacktoberfest, please contact our team via email hacktoberfest@digitalocean.com or join our community Discord server.

Happy Hacking,
The Hacktoberfest Team

Hacktoberfest is presented by DigitalOcean, Intel and DEV.

chandan-reddy-k · 2020-09-30T13:23:53Z

@hacktoberfest-team already added as a disclaimer in 3 places 🙂

surepy · 2020-10-01T23:12:04Z

@hacktoberfest-team already added as a disclaimer in 3 places slightly_smiling_face
1. Issue: #108

2. FAQs: https://github.com/OpenSourceTogether/Hacktoberfest-2020#faqs

3. Disclaimer: https://github.com/OpenSourceTogether/Hacktoberfest-2020#%EF%B8%8F-disclaimer

I think it'll be better to move the disclaimer to the very top of the readme simply because people don't like to read to the bottom
you can tell because of how much pr's are still being created right now.

chandan-reddy-k · 2020-10-02T00:49:32Z

It’s disheartening to see people directly make pull requests without reading the entire readme or checking the issues tab 😔

I’ll update the readme over this weekend, thanks.

chandan-reddy-k · 2020-10-02T08:46:24Z

@surepy Done ✅

surepy · 2020-10-02T15:11:16Z

@surepy Done ✅

vv nice

rutujak24 · 2020-10-18T04:24:26Z

Hey @hacktoberfest-team do you provide a certificate upon 4 successful PRs?

chandan-reddy-k mentioned this issue Oct 1, 2020

Hey if we contribute to README will our pull request be elegible for Hacktoberfest #292

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shraiyya mentioned this issue Oct 1, 2020

Updated README.md and removed 3 repositories not accepting pull requests anymore for hacktoberfest 2020 OtacilioN/awesome-hacktoberfest#216

Merged

chandan-reddy-k mentioned this issue Oct 7, 2020

Add your github profile in contributors.json #2

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lukeocodes mentioned this issue Oct 11, 2020

check for hacktoberfest-team "this won't count" issue on open projects lukeocodes/hacktoberfest-checker#11

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mananchawla2005 mentioned this issue Oct 22, 2020

Check Other api endpoints mananchawla2005/Hacktoberfest-Repo-Checker#2

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Pull requests here won’t count toward Hacktoberfest. #146

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