Free T Shirts Are Destroying Open Source Software

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: This year Hacktoberfest has taken a turn for the worse. Starting on the first day of October, thousands of spam pull requests were opened with the sole intent of merging 5 pull requests to gain a free Tshirt. This left a huge burden on maintainers as well as other contributors. In this video I talk about the effect of this year s Hacktoberfest as well as how it can be fixed. Concepts Covered: What Hacktoberfest is The burden Hacktoberfest puts on maintainers Why spam pull requests effect more than just the maintainers How to improve Hacktoberfest Find Me Here: My Blog: My Courses: . .., WebDevSimplified, webdevsimplified, hacktoberfest, hacktoberfest2020, hacktoberfestspam, hacktoberfesttutorial, hacktoberfest2020spam, hacktoberfest2020shirt, hacktoberfestshirt, freeswag 20201017 tXEVL3fVbB0