Cleanup Hacktoberfest topic #4042
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These carry no weight in Hacktoberfest, are not widely used, and tend to be used by repositories that are going against the values of Hacktoberfest by encouraging low-effort PRs. Further, the `hacktoberfest-status` topic itself is essentially not used, and only has 5 repositories using it.
These make little sense, as Hacktoberfest only tracks PRs submitted by contributors, not issues. If folks want to look at issues for Hacktoberfest, they should look at issues in repositories with the topic, not the arbitrary topic For both topics, there are essentially no repositories using them, with both only returning 2 repositories in their results.
If users want to explore different programming languages for Hacktoberfest, they should look at opted-in repositories withe topic and use GitHub's built-in tooling for filtering by language
These topics are not tracked by Hacktoberfest and will not opt a repository in. Including them on this topic page is very likely going to lead to confused contributors who end up contributing to repositories that do not have the correct topics to be opted-in
As with the year topics, these topics are not tracked by Hacktoberfest and do not opt-in a repository. Having them listed may likely lead to contributors looking at repositories that are not opted-in for Hacktoberfest, and then having their contributions not be counted. Further, all the topics linked here are essentially unused, returning less than 5 repositories each in their results.
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I think, if anything, the most useful thing to have in this topic description would be some guidance to folks on how to find a repository that they feel motivated and comfortable contributing to, and one that follows the values of Hacktoberfest (isn't encouraging low-effort PRs to cheat the system, like adding a name to a list, or submitting a random algorithm). A great feature that is currently missing from GitHub is the ability to search issues filtered by repository topic -- it'd be lovely to be able to link out from this topic page to all open issues in a |
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Yeah, I think, I went a little wild there 😅 But adding some guidance instead sounds like a great idea 👍🏻 |
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I do work at DigitalOcean and am on the core Hacktoberfest team, but per #3885 (comment) I'm clear to check this checkbox.
Which change are you proposing?
Editing an existing topic or collection
I'm suggesting these edits to an existing topic or collection:
*.png, square, dimensions 288x288, size <= 75 kB)index.md)I raised some concerns about recent changes to this topic over in #3995 (comment), with the tl;dr being that linking out to all these other topics is likely going to be misleading/confusing to participants of Hacktoberfest, as none of these additional topics are endorsed or tracked by Hacktoberfest, so contributions to repositories using them may not be counted if they do not have the
hacktoberfesttopic itself. Further, most of the topics that were added here are essentially not used, with almost all returning less than 5 repositories in their results.Please see each commit for further justification/explanation for the changes within.
With these changes made, the only remaining links out in the topic description are to the language filters -- the dropdown for this is right below the description on the topic page, so honestly I somewhat feel those links are also redundant, but I have left them in for now.