What is Hacktoberfest
A cloud provider called DigitalOcean [0] organises an event called
Hacktoberfest [1], presented as an encouragement to all to contribute
to open-source software, in which that company offers 70,000 t-shirts
to people sending pull requests to GitHub-hosted Git repositories
of open source projects.
This results in a flood of low-quality few-character pull requests,
especially on website repositories, despite the warnings against
that in the detailed rules of Hactoberfest [2], which many T-shirt
hunters likely don't bother to read or take into consideration.
I'm not sure how to best deal with that:
[a] write a polite message to each such "eager contributor"
reminding them that the detailed hacktoberfest rules discourage
such anti-contributions
[b] use a pull request template with such a warning,
and warn that abuse will be reported as spam
and thus disqualify their authors to get any hacktoberfest rewards
[c] shut down the pull requests mechanism for the whole of October
Other ideas? Good luck to all GitHub-hosted repository maintainers.
Maybe this will encourage a massive migration to GitLab.
Here is a possible polite message to copy-paste if we choose that.
"""
Hacktoberfest spam? If this is for Hacktoberfest, please read their
detailed rules carefully. They encourage meaningful contributions
and discourage this type of pull request with no clear added value
and whose only purpose seems to be to increase your "score".
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/details
"""
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalOcean
[1] https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
[2] https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/details
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