Support PR-specific opt-in

[MattIPv4]

Description

Allow individual PRs to opt-in to the event with the hacktoberfest-accepted label, without the repository having the hacktoberfest topic.

Updated post copy:

Updated details:

Updated rules:

Updated maintainers info:

Updated timeline legend:

Test process

• Create PR in non-Hacktoberfest-topic repo with no labels, shows as missing topic
• Create PR in non-Hacktoberfest-topic repo with hacktoberfest-accepted label, shows as waiting
• Create PR in Hacktoberfest-topic repo with no labels, shows as not accepted
• Create PR in Hacktoberfest-topic repo with hacktoberfest-accepted label, shows as waiting

Requirements to merge

• [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
• [x] I have commented my code in hard-to-understand areas
• [x] My changes generate no new warnings
• [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

[filips123]

Nice to see those changes, I hope they will allow real contributors to have wider choice of repositories while limiting amount of spam. However, I have some questions:

• Do PRs with hacktoberfest-accepted label have to be merged to count?
• If PR is made to some repository without hacktoberfest topic before this change is released, will it still count once hacktoberfest-accepted label is added and this change is released?
• What are the reasons that you don't count just any merged or accepted PR? Because if not, contributors would then have to beg maintainers to add hacktoberfest-accepted label even though PR has already been accepted or merged.

[MattIPv4]

Just to preface this, these changes are very much still in the internal proposal stage and may not happen, but having this PR up hopefully will help with getting some feel for the community sentiment on such a change.

Now, to your questions:

Do PRs with hacktoberfest-accepted label have to be merged to count?

Nope, the same rules will still apply around accepting a PR, so when it is opted-in with hacktoberfest-accepted this will also accept it at the same time.

If PR is made to some repository without hacktoberfest topic before this change is released, will it still count once hacktoberfest-accepted label is added and this change is released?

Yup, every 2 hours we check the state of every PR a user has. If this change gets made, it'll also apply to any PRs already in existence.

What are the reasons that you don't count just any merged or accepted PR? Because if not, contributors would then have to beg maintainers to add hacktoberfest-accepted label even though PR has already been accepted or merged.

Based on overwhelming community feedback, we have decided to make Hacktoberfest explicitly opt-in. Accepting all merged/approved PRs on GitHub globally would not be opt-in, using the hacktoberfest topic or hacktoberfest-accepted label makes the opt-in decision explicit.