Hacktoberfest 2023 - How AI can create an impact on Open Source Contributions

The dark side of Hacktoberfest

Over the years, Hacktoberfest has garnered a lot of criticism from the open-source maintainer community. Primarily driven by the idea of getting their hands on a cool T-shirt, a large number of students flock to Hacktoberfest to submit tons of PRs, get any four accepted and be done with it. There is always a tussle to find the easiest issues and not meaningful ones.

This is so evident that in 2020, there was a major …

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