UPDATED: An update on efforts to reduce spam with Hacktoberfest: introducing maintainer opt-in and more.

[dheeraj-2000]

Hello everyone

You might be aware that a lot of spamming is happening this year, and this has totally disturbed the Open Source community. So new ways has been added to discourage participants from spamming, which were intended to just +1 their PR count, Major updates are:

• Repository classified with the ‘hacktoberfest’ topic: Now onwards, only the repositories which have this topic will be eligible for hacktoberfest contribution.
• The pull requests will also need to be merged, approved by a maintainer, or labeled as ‘hacktoberfest-accepted’ in order to qualify. The deadline for completions, merging, labeling, and approving is November 1.

Read full UPDATE here

Thanks
Happy coding ✌️