Four Ways To Survive Hacktoberfest As A Maintainer

Ah October

The month of fall, pumpkin spice lattes (or anything pumpkin-flavored), Halloween, and ... Hacktoberfest. For some open-source maintainers, this is like a month-long trick-or-treat adventure, a chance to collect feature updates, recruit new contributors, and experiment with new ideas. But for others, it's more like a month-long horror film, complete with unassigned Pull Requests lurking in the dark, unwarranted DMs from contributors creeping up like ghosts, and issues that are so confusing that it makes their head spin …

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