Pull requests here won’t count toward Hacktoberfest.

[hacktoberfest-team]

Hi there,

Thank you for your interest in Hacktoberfest and in helping others make their first contributions to open source.

While we agree that it's important to help others, this repository does not do this in a way that is in line with the Hacktoberfest values. Please read the part that talks about high-quality contributions to understand why we are reaching out and taking action. Due to this, we've added this repository to the list of excluded repositories which means pull requests here will not count toward Hacktoberfest 2020.

This is not a DigitalOcean decision, it's one that is inspired by the community of maintainers and contributors who all agree that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to engagement in the Open Source community. The values remind us to shift the focus from contributions to repositories that encourage folks to quickly create and gain a pull request to contributions that will help people level-up their skills and contribute to open-source projects that are in need of help.

If you feel that this repository is an effective learning resource, we encourage you to keep running it since a core part of the aim for Hacktoberfest is to encourage new folks to get involved with open-source.

However, if you are interested in having contributions to this repo count toward Hacktoberfest we encourage you to take a look at this list of Hacktoberfest issues for inspiration and make the necessary changes to focus on enabling people to make meaningful contributions to open source projects.

If you have any questions about this or participating in Hacktoberfest, please contact our team via email hacktoberfest@digitalocean.com or join our community Discord server.

Happy Hacking,
The Hacktoberfest Team

Hacktoberfest is presented by DigitalOcean, Intel and DEV.

[Lakshmikittur]

@hacktoberfest-team It would have been nice if this was intimated earlier as we came to know after 13 days of PR.

[Mustafiz04]

@Lakshmikittur @hacktoberfest-team What we have to do now? I make almost every PR in this repo around 10-11 days back and today they all become invalid.

[bhaveshlohana]

@Lakshmikittur @Mustafiz04 i mailed them the same thing that so many contribution are quality content, you have to re-evaluate it. I was given the same response.

[amintai]

@bhaveshlohana is there any possibility to make new repo and add hacktoberfest tags and accept only quality PRs.

[bhaveshlohana]

@amintai I have stopped merging PRs, I've contacted them and told them the changes i have done. Also, all the PRs that have been accepted other than Hello World Programs are quality PRs. I don't understand why they didn't say this before.

[Kedar-27]

opps. Anyways @bhaveshlohana thanks for your efforts and great initiative. Just wished that PR would have got accepted. But no issues.

[bhaveshlohana]

@Kedar-27 I am still trying, hope they see it.

[Sidkul2000]

@bhaveshlohana Thanks for taking such a great initiative. Please try to approve the repository as many PRs have quality content. Kindly add the hacktober-accepted label also. Thanks in advance :)

[Sidkul2000]

opps. Anyways @bhaveshlohana thanks for your efforts and great initiative. Just wished that PR would have got accepted. But no issues.

Is there any way the PRs could be accepted again? Or will we have to create new PRs now?

[y-martinez]

I understand your good initiatives @bhaveshlohana and I agree that perhaps it would have been better if the Hacktoberfest organizers had warned days ago, however, OSS communities and their projects abound on Github, it is not necessary that every year during the Hacktoberfestpeople create N repositories like this (there are many and they are all the same and with the same purpose) only to make contributions, although all have been of good quality. I think it is good that the Hacktoberfest has these strictures to avoid the amount of Spam.

[SaiSudhaV]

Will there be any way the PRs could be accepted again?

[bhaveshlohana]

@Sidkul2000 if they re-evaluate then it'd be counted but they aren't replying to my mails.

[bhaveshlohana]

@y-martinez I just wanted to help as I wasn't able to contribute properly last year.

[bhaveshlohana]

@SaiSudhaV Yes, there has to be.

[Mustafiz04]

@Sidkul2000 if they re-evaluate then it'd be counted but they aren't replying to my mails.

@bhaveshlohana please mail again.

[bhaveshlohana]

@Mustafiz04 I do, they have stopped replying.