Domenic Denicola • 9/30/2020

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

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The article criticizes DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest event, claiming it incentivizes spam pull requests to open source repositories. It details the burden on maintainers who must handle these PRs, argues the event harms the open source community by contributing to burnout, and calls for it to be made opt-in for maintainers.

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