Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
by kej on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:44PM
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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
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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.