>From my previous experiences, Hacktoberfest tends to lead to a lot of spam which can IMO tarnish the overall quality of PRs of the project.
There is a Twitter handle (@shitoberfest) that highlights this... On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 19:05, David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > There is this open-source contribution incentive thing called > "Hacktoberfest" -- > https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com > If we merely add the "hacktoberfest" label to our GitHub repo here: > https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/master/.asf.yaml > then we may see some additional PR based contributions to Lucene/Solr. > If a PR contributor mentions Hacktoberfest, we also then add the > "hacktoberfest-accepted" label to the PR itself. Example: > https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/1970 That PR is what exposed > me to this program. > > Can I get another PMC's +1 to the idea and I'll just edit our labels? > > "Risks" are perhaps more PRs/contributions than we are used to, some may > be typo in nature, and probably without JIRA issues. Granted, trivial ones > don't need JIRA issues anyway. > > ~ David Smiley > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > -- Regards, Atri Apache Concerted
