• @ericjmoreyOP
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    811 months ago

    It’s just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.

    • Pierre-Yves Lapersonne
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      311 months ago

      So annoying. It is useless to bring gamification to open source projects. It won’t enhance quality nor bring reliable contributors. People should contribute to FLOSS projects without such things IMO.

      • @ericjmoreyOP
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        411 months ago

        I’m not sure that’s true. It attracts attention and can induce momentum to get people familiar with a particular project or just open source contribution in general.

      • @ericjmoreyOP
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        411 months ago

        Seems like an odd reaction. I like codberg and encourage it’s use, but I wouldn’t say non-participation hacktoberfest is a reason to use it instead of other options.

          • @ericjmoreyOP
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            111 months ago

            This doesn’t seem like something that rizes to the level of a reason to recommend the use of codberg over other options on its own. I would certainly not recommend switching an existing project based on this alone.