Closed Andrew-Chen-Wang closed 3 years ago
Just another thing about the search engine, in inspiration from I believe Mark Rober on eBay buying baseball cards that are misspelled, use some kind of formula like Levenshtein to make sure that the user who is searching "hacktoberfest" in GitHub get the results we want them to see.
Since GitHub is probably not going to see this or change their search engine, I think your website can do the same kind of searching ref the GH API. How can I contribute? Uh I can't; I got midterms in four days lol.
Nevermind I'm closing this after seeing this repository get flurried: https://github.com/xraymemory/micromtn
May OG contributors and maintainers RIP.
Feature description
TL;DR Show only small repos when people search Hacktoberfest since when a person simply searches hacktoberfest on GitHub, it's just repos with hacktoberfest.
Ref: #596 (This is just a copy of my comment). I'm mostly for this PR, but (the following is my proposal to distribute the spamming of PRs to become small PRs but in "actual code form" to smaller repos):
I have an organization's repo with only 5 stars in it, and I'd love to see contributions to it. I think we just need to think back to what this entire event is for: encouraging people to contribute to open source. Right now, I think this PR 1. makes large repositories overrun with spam and 2. make smaller repositories who desperately need contributions left in the dust that is GitHub's tag search engine (which is great, but not for this event since the repos that just accept random hacktoberfest-targeted PRs get more "contributions").
Solutions via rules and code:
Code changes:
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a HUGE and I mean HUGE rate limit is reached). That's all I can say about this since I'm not sure what the database is like for this.Idk, in essence, I think there would be more good to this event if small repositories got more PRs to 1. distribute the spam, 2. make sure PRs are in "actual code form," and 3. help the smaller repositories grow. That way, we can also deter any repositories that are only for "hacktoberfest" itself so people can win a free prize.
Disclaimer: I'm not a psychologist and I can't predict the future, but I'd love to see some kind of discussion.