Hacktoberfest 2024

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11 points·ironinter··7 comments

Sounds like an amazing project. Hopefully some people will put their backs into improving documentation.

All joking aside, it's good to have initiatives like Hacktoberfest to get people involved in FLOSS. Bountysource was also neat in that regard, too bad the apple basket wound up rotten (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098). Would be neat if one of the alternatives managed to really take off.

Improving documentation is an often underrated contribution.

Have you read man pages by the same author as the program itself? When you can tell before looking up the name, there's a needed and worthy contribution waiting to happen.

No need to tell me, whenever I'm working with Common Lisp I usually have the GNU Common Lisp documentation open to the side (it's in Info format, which Emacs has pretty good support for). I also really appreciate Perl for the `perldoc' command, which works well with the Perl community's penchant for well-written documentation (e.g. the documentation for List::Util https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Util).

Although I will admit that I was poking fun at the 'improve docs: @@ an awesome project' shenanigans from the T-shirt days.

Sad there’s no tshirt :(

It is better as it reduces incentives for bad PRs and spamming

the things I do for a cool free tshirt

Of course, you’re correct.

But it’s still sad to see enshitification reach this far as well.

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