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ericjmorey@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 2 years ago

What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022)

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What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs (November 2, 2022)

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ericjmorey@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 2 years ago
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What I Learned from Maintaining a Repo During Hacktoberfest and Merging 356 PRs
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Hacktoberfest is a month long celebration of open source. And this year I participated as a maintainer for freeCodeCamp's Developer Quiz Site [https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/Developer_Quiz_Site]. I merged a total of 356 pull requests and helped a lot of new contributors get started with open source. We were able to add a total
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    I still don’t understand why Hacktoberfest get so much hype. I don’t even understand Hacktoberfest meanings. Is it to get shiny badges on GitHub accounts?

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      It’s just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.

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