On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 10:07 Mariatta <maria...@python.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:08 AM Chris Withers <ch...@withers.org> wrote: > >> >> Don't get me wrong though: I think Hacktoberfest is a terrible idea in >> that focusses on short-term fly-by contributing rather than fostering >> the long term commitments that all open source projects desperately need. >> >> > I understand the frustration and indeed there needs to be a solution for > engaging long-term contributors. > I think it's true that not everyone participating will end up as long term > contributors, but this is a general problem, and we see the same issue with > sprints at conferences as well. Perhaps only a small percentage of > participants do end up being long term contributors. > I think it's unfair to say that sprints/hacktoberfest is bad because we > don't end up with long term commitments. It's not our place to judge > people's motivation into contributing to OS projects. Some people have > never been exposed to OS before, maybe they just want to try it out and see > if it's something they want to do long term. Events like sprints and > hacktoberfest lets them experiment and to try contributing. It's ok if most > end up not wanting to continue. So maybe hacktoberfest is bad for > maintainers in general, as we get very little out of it, but it can be good > to some others. I think we should not limit ourselves into saying "only > serious/long term contributions are allowed here". >
Hear, hear. For the first time this year, there is finally some focus on open source > maintainers during hacktoberfest. Participants are also encouraged to > donate to participating projects. Since CPython project is already set up > on GitHub Sponsors, I would like to get CPython listed there so that our > project will appear on the list of projects that people can donate to, > which will help with funding of CPython development. > +1 I'm going to go ahead and add the hacktoberfest topic to the repo later > today. I will also send an announcement to python-dev, letting people know > of our participation, and that we will opt-out if we end up with mostly low > quality and spam PRs. I will be watching the incoming PRs for the next week > so I can determine whether we should opt-out or not. > Thank you! —Guido > -- --Guido (mobile)
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