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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by justinclift on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:43PM (#24645476)
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?

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Re:DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source by gadgetoid on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:51AM (#24651492)
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

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