A critique of DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest, arguing it spams open source maintainers with low-quality PRs and increases burnout.
A developer argues for the value of inline code comments as a durable form of documentation, contrasting them with ephemeral pull request discussions.
A developer shares their Hacktoberfest 2019 contributions, including pull requests merged for DEV.to and the Storybook learning site.
A guide to participating in Hacktoberfest 2019, focusing on contributing to open source PowerShell projects and finding issues to work on.
A beginner's guide to using Git and GitHub for code version control, based on a Python Frederick presentation.
A guide to automating pull request checks and reviews using the Danger tool on CI servers like Travis CI.
A call for contributions to the Hacktoberfest open-source event, focusing on the PowerShell project 'BurntToast' and encouraging participation.
A guide on how to become an open source project maintainer by contributing to existing projects you use, without needing permission.
A technical guide on using Google BigQuery to analyze GitHub pull request data, including SQL queries for repository statistics.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to gracefully close or reject unwanted pull requests and patch submissions.
Encourages open source contributions by emphasizing that even small fixes like typos are valuable and appreciated by project maintainers.
An article discussing how slow response times and ignored pull requests create a hostile environment for new open source contributors.
