> I'm not sure I want to add a label. +1 on this. I'm also a bit wary of low quality pull requests, but I don't think it will be that common of an occurrence.
Perhaps my experience is skewed, but I've found that lots of newcomers have difficulty finding something to work on; we'd probably want to improve ourselves in that regard if we were to expect a significant amount of new contributions from this program. Nelson On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Jacob Schreiber <jmschreibe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's always good to get more contributors, even if they only add > small amounts of code and disappear. However, I'd be worried about people > submitting low quality PRs in order to claim "success" and/or not following > up. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Andreas Mueller <t3k...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all. >> >> Wdyt (see below)? I'm always for new contributors ;) - Though it does add >> overhead. >> I'm not sure I want to add a label, but being on the page seems a good >> thing, I think. >> >> Adny >> >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: Featuring scikit-learn in Hacktoberfest 2016 >> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:31:30 -0400 >> From: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <ast...@digitalocean.com> >> <ast...@digitalocean.com> >> To: t3k...@gmail.com >> CC: Open Source <opensou...@digitalocean.com> >> <opensou...@digitalocean.com> >> >> Hi, >> >> My name is Andrew Starr-Bochicchio and I'm on the Community team at >> DigitalOcean. >> >> In an effort to create some excitement around contributing to open source >> in the month of October, DigitalOcean and GitHub are partnering to run the >> third annual Hacktoberfest. We challenge people to get involved by creating >> at least four pull requests to open source projects over the course of the >> month. Everyone who completes the task gets a limited edition t-shirt. Last >> year we saw 14,419 people sign up, and 5,708 people create at least four >> pull requests >> <https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/looking-back-at-hacktoberfest/>. >> We're hoping for even more this time around. >> >> Pull requests can be to any project, but we also like to use >> Hacktoberfest to feature a number of projects that we love, most >> prominently on the landing page (see last year's for an example >> <https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/>). We are hoping to feature >> scikit-learn, but I just wanted to check in with you and make sure you were >> interested. >> >> Additionally, this year we'll be encouraging project maintainers to label >> issues on GitHub "hacktoberfest" so that we can get even more projects >> involved and send contributors to where the help is most needed. So spread >> the word if there are other projects you think might be interested. >> >> Please let me know if you'd like to be featured on the landing page, if >> you have any questions, or if there's anything DO can do to help. >> >> Thanks! >> >> - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio >> Community Manager >> DigitalOcean >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scikit-learn mailing list >> scikit-learn@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > scikit-learn mailing list > scikit-learn@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn > >
_______________________________________________ scikit-learn mailing list scikit-learn@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn
