Comment by JakeStone

Hm. I did my first Hacktoberfest last year, and it was fun. I only remember 2 of them.

One was something like build the worst implementation possible of aspects of the .Net framework, but while a joke project, it's been around for a few years, and you actually had to make something that _worked_ and in a reasonable amount of time. It was a fun challenge.

The other one was a bit of a lark, but it led to me and the maintainer having some discussions, working out some code, and then them taking about 2/3 of the PR just because there were constraints that were immutable for them, and neither of us could come up with a viable workaround, and we parted friends.

This is something that should be fun/interesting, and presumably, adding to the open source community. The T-shirt is a cool idea, but I think I ended up doing 7 or 8 of them just because I had gotten into the mode of "I'll just skim through the list of open projects and provide some real help while I have some free time."

Maybe it's time to make it opt-in. Register your projects with DO and Hacktoberfest, and those will be the only ones that get counted. Assumption being though that if you sign up your projects, you're going to stay up to speed on PRs and merge or mark as spam in a reasonable amount of time.