Comment by paxys
5 years ago
As an open source maintainer, I'd gladly sift through a mountain of spammy PRs (heck closing 4 per hour, as called out in the article, is almost zero trouble), if it means even a handful of real significant progress and issues fixed and potential future maintainers.
+1. I feel the same way. If one out of 20 drive-by contributors stick around and become regular, that would be a real win for me. (I'm currently maintaining a project with 20k GitHub stars and we have four regular contributors.)
That's a big if.
Well this thing has been running for a few years now so I'm sure someone has that data
https://github.com/MattIPv4/hacktoberfest-data
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