Rules and Guidelines for Hactoberfest
Your PR/MRs must be created between October 1 and October 31 (in any time zone, UTC-12 thru UTC+14).
Your PR/MRs must be made to a public, unarchived repository.
PR/MRs that are labeled with a label containing the word “spam” by maintainers will not be counted.
We use the Node.js 16 RegEx engine with /\bspam\b/i to look for spam labels.
PR/MRs that also have the “hacktoberfest-accepted” label cannot be marked as spammy via a label.
PR/MRs that have been merged and do not have a label containing the word “invalid” cannot be marked as spammy via a label.
PR/MRs that our system detects as spammy will also not be counted.
Any user with two or more spammy PR/MRs will be disqualified. Hacktoberfest is now opt-in for maintainers, so only contribute to projects that indicate they’re looking for Hacktoberfest PR/MRs.
Once your PR/MR has passed this check, we won’t check this again (unless your PR/MR fails a check before this, such as it being marked as spammy). We continually evaluate all of the checks except the [PARTICIPATING] check. If it fails any of these checks during this time, the 7-day timer will reset.
After the 7-day review period completes, your PR/MR will be automatically accepted for Hacktoberfest assuming it still passes all the checks. Once accepted for Hacktoberfest, we stop checking. :party: