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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by bransonf on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:31PM (#24644165)
This is especially stupid of the spamming participants. If you so desire a t-shirt and don’t want to make any meaningful contributions, just make your own BS repo and make your own BS pull requests.

I intended to make meaningful contributions last year and accidentally hit the quota just by making PRs to my own projects.

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by miguendes on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:38PM (#24644250)
I think PRs for own repos are not allowed. Unless they create a fake account to contribute to.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by hcho3 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:48PM (#24644362)
From https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq:

> Do pull requests made on my own repositories count?

> Yes, but we strongly encourage you to make quality contributions to other repositories.

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by kej on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:44PM (#24644322)
Personal repos have worked in the past, as long as they're public.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by MrMorden on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:22PM (#24644729)
The first user I looked at from the repository mentioned in the article did all of the above. Spam PRs in someone else’s repo, spam PRs in their own (fake) repo, spam PRs in a sock puppet’s (also fake) repo. The only thing they haven’t tried is writing a legitimate PR.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by josepmdc on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:47PM (#24644357)
Yes they are, I did contributions to my own projects and they counted. At least last year.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by alexellisuk on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:18PM (#24644677)
Works fine, yes
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