We heard you & made the biggest update yet. @Hacktoberfest 2020 is officially opt-in only for projects & maintainers! 💙 We’re excited to introduce these new measures to increase quality contributions & can’t wait to see what you build. hacktoberfest.digitalocean.c…
Since we created @Hacktoberfest 7 years ago, our intentions have always been to celebrate & uplift the open source community. We're sorry we didn't live up to that. We promise to make it better. Read more in this message to our community💙: hacktoberfest.digitalocean.c…

2:40 AM · Oct 3, 2020

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Good move, thank you!
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Excellent. Unlike one of the sources of the issue, you take responsibility and action to make things better. That is why @digitalocean is my provider of choice: not only because is awesome, but for things like this. 😉
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It is going to be full stop 🙅 for those creeps. Good Job
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Does this impact legitimate PRs that were submitted before the change was made that are still in the 2 week maturing window?
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I read somewhere that it won't apply to the PRs submitted before the change
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only repo admins can change topics; could we also opt in specific PRs by adding a label that contains "hacktoberfest" (and doesn't contain spam/invalid)? That way, for repos I have Write on but not Admin, I can still help PR authors get their shirt.
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Makes sense, has been proposed internally and draft PR created :)
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How can I opt-in if my FOSS project uses open tools instead of GitHub?
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