Hacktoberfest / hacktoberfest-2020

Hacktoberfest - App to manage the annual open-source challenge, used for the 2019 & 2020 seasons.
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Suggestion: Make the "Quality standard" be more prominent #585

Closed Mariatta closed 3 years ago

Mariatta commented 3 years ago

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It feels like the focus for hacktoberfest is to "create as many PRs to any open source projects", which lead to maintainers receiving spammy PRs we didn't ask for. I would suggest making the quality standard be more prominent, and make it to the top of the FAQ page.

In the FAQ page, the question "What is considered a valid pull request?" is way below the "My pull request was labeled as invalid by a maintainer, why doesn’t it count?". I would think that making a valid pull request is much higher priority, and if they know it, they wouldn't end up with invalid PR.

I would also suggest adding more real-life examples of invalid/spam PRs so people know not to make such PRs.

Some examples I've seen just in the past 2 days:

Thanks for considering these suggestions.

MattIPv4 commented 3 years ago

We've added some very visible do's and don't's to the registration flow and profile, hopefully, that should address this :)