Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by paxys on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:41PM
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As an open source maintainer, I'd gladly sift through a mountain of spammy PRs (heck closing 4 per hour, as called out in the article, is almost zero trouble), if it means even a handful of real significant progress and issues fixed and potential future maintainers.
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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by hcho3 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:51PM
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+1. I feel the same way. If one out of 20 drive-by contributors stick around and become regular, that would be a real win for me. (I'm currently maintaining a project with 20k GitHub stars and we have four regular contributors.)
Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by pseudalopex on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:49PM
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That's a big if.
Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by paxys on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:52PM
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Well this thing has been running for a few years now so I'm sure someone has that data
Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by paxys on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:08PM
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A snapshot of one year's participation in that specific period isn't too relevant to what we are discussing, because it doesn't track sustained future contributions by those same users.
Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by justinclift on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:43PM
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That's a good point. Wonder if they're be open to adding something like that...?
Maybe suggest that in an issue on that stats tracking repo?
Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by gadgetoid on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:51AM
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In theory they are. In practise the lack of a test dataset - and the lack of access to their dataset - means it's virtually impossible for a third party to make any significant contribution to the data processing code.
Such an effort would have to start with them voluneering a test dataset and/or schema.
I have asked - https://github.com/MattIPv4/hacktoberfest-data/issues/5