# Hacktoberfest is upon us **URL:** \ **Category:** General Dev Chat\ **Tags:** opensource, hacktoberfest\ **Created:** [1 October 2020 05:55 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743 "2020-10-01T05:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ohm](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/ohm/32/559_2.png) [@ohm](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/ohm)\ **Post date:** [1 October 2020 05:55 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743/1 "2020-10-01T05:55:46Z")
How many are joining for the festivitas that is Hacktoberfest? What will you be doing? > **[Hacktoberfest presented by DigitalOcean](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/)** > > Open source is changing the world – one pull request at a time. ---
**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\ **Post date:** [1 October 2020 15:50 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743/3 "2020-10-01T15:50:28Z")
Have you taken part before Mads? What were the prizes last time? Nice that they will be giving out 70,000 t-shirts! ---
**Author:** ![ohm](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/ohm/32/559_2.png) [@ohm](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/ohm)\ **Post date:** [2 October 2020 08:01 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743/4 "2020-10-02T08:01:21Z")
Never with amazing pull-requests, which is also what most others are talking about right now. [https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/](https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/) I have only looked at the repositories where maintainers themselves have put “Hacktober” labels on their issues. And on top of that, I have only ever began working on PRs for these issues, if no other had claimed them. ---
**Author:** ![Qqwy](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/qqwy/32/91_2.png) [@Qqwy](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/Qqwy)\ **Post date:** [2 October 2020 17:46 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743/5 "2020-10-02T17:46:36Z")
There is a bit of drama right now surrounding Hacktoberfest this year, because seemingly some kind of video about ‘how easy it is to make a trivial PR on GitHub’ went viral. > **[How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama](https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama?guid=none&deviceId=83bf2347-4b8a-4460-b797-0d44bed022db)** > > Hacktoberfest > If you aren't familar, Hacktoberfest is an annual event that occurs every October. It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to Open Source repositories and as a reward you get a T-Shirt. > There's... ---
**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\ **Post date:** [2 October 2020 19:45 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743/6 "2020-10-02T19:45:45Z")
It’s difficult to comment without seeing the video - if he was encouraging spam then that’s obviously bad, but if he was just trying to show people how easy it is to contribute to open source then maybe he was just trying to help. I remb this excellent Railscast on the topic and I know lots of people, including myself, found it helpful: > **[\#300 Contributing to Open Source - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/300-contributing-to-open-source)** ---
**Author:** ![NobbZ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/nobbz/32/114_2.png) [@NobbZ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/NobbZ)\ **Post date:** [3 October 2020 12:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/hacktoberfest-is-upon-us/2743/7 "2020-10-03T12:20:45Z")
They have responded to the issue and changed the rules. Hacktoberfest is now opt-in for maintainers. Rules are since today: > **[Hacktoberfest presented by DigitalOcean](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update)** > > Open source is changing the world – one pull request at a time.