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Comment on Ask HN: Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?

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Haven't some companies have tried giving away merch to people who send in pull requests? I can't remember who the last one was, but I looked at the repo and it was mostly nonsense changes to docs or comments like adding unnecessary punctuation. And that was just for t-shirts.

People even posted YouTube tutorial videos on how to submit a pull requests using github just to get a t-shirt.

If you inventive solving issues expect to get a lot of nonsense issues posted, and 30 seconds later "someone else" solving it.

There was a significant number of companies doing this for Hacktoberfest 2020: https://hacktoberfestswaglist.com/

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