Hacktoberfest Adds GitLab Support, Updates Participation Requirements to Combat Open Source Project Spam
The 8th annual Hacktoberfest is underway with a few important changes this year. Hacktoberfest, a virtual event sponsored by DigitalOcean and community partners, has traditionally encouraged open source contribution during the month of October by rewarding participants with a t-shirt for submitting pull requests. The initiative has added support for participation on GitLab this year, a highly requested expansion that will include more open source projects that aren’t hosted on GitHub. Participation has grown from 676 people the first year to over 150,000 in recent years. In 2021, the program has been changed to be only applicable to opt-in repositories after being linked to an influx of spam for open source maintainers in previous years. Maintainers of popular projects were getting frustrated by wasting their time handling nonsense PR’s and marking them as spam during Hacktoberfest. Ugh, oh no, October is starting. Prepare for a month of spam pull requests… whatwg/html has already been hit hard, at 5 in the last 3 hours.@hacktoberfest, please please stop this annual tradition of wasting maintainers’ time. You are a net negative for the world.— Domenic Denicola (@domenic) September 30, 2020 Starting this year, pull requests will only count towards participation if they are…
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