> just so some people can get a tshirt, not sure it's worth it.
That’s looking at things a wee bit one-dimensional isn’t it?
Until this year Hacktoberfest has been a fun event where people of all levels of skill has learned how one can help out in open-source projects.
They have learned how to fork, make changes and propose that those changes get upstreamed. You may take these skills for granted, but they first needs to be learnt.
They have learnt what sort of reception to expect based on how they have presented their changes to the upstream repo and/or maintainers and how to adjust it based on a feedback and consensus. You may take this experience for granted, but it needs to come from somewhere.
In both these respects Hacktoberfest has helped.
Looking at entire Hacktoberfest and what it has done over all its years as simply a t-shirt because some Indian spammers tried to game the system for that single price this single year is absolutely not fair.
> They should have acknowledged their failure and cancelled the game altogether.
You should acknowledge that such confrontational attitude and vitriol won’t do the discussion any good.
You could come up with all kinds of constructive criticism here instead, but that might take some effort on your part. It will get you a more fruitful discussion though.
Disclaimer: Maintainer for various projects and Hacktoberfest attendee.
That’s looking at things a wee bit one-dimensional isn’t it?
Until this year Hacktoberfest has been a fun event where people of all levels of skill has learned how one can help out in open-source projects.
They have learned how to fork, make changes and propose that those changes get upstreamed. You may take these skills for granted, but they first needs to be learnt.
They have learnt what sort of reception to expect based on how they have presented their changes to the upstream repo and/or maintainers and how to adjust it based on a feedback and consensus. You may take this experience for granted, but it needs to come from somewhere.
In both these respects Hacktoberfest has helped.
Looking at entire Hacktoberfest and what it has done over all its years as simply a t-shirt because some Indian spammers tried to game the system for that single price this single year is absolutely not fair.
> They should have acknowledged their failure and cancelled the game altogether.
You should acknowledge that such confrontational attitude and vitriol won’t do the discussion any good.
You could come up with all kinds of constructive criticism here instead, but that might take some effort on your part. It will get you a more fruitful discussion though.
Disclaimer: Maintainer for various projects and Hacktoberfest attendee.