Dietary restrictions and preferences 100% welcome! Grew up with a celiac sibling and one of our team members is vegetarian. Similarly to design, in food, restrictions lead to creativity! (Founder of the company)
thanks for chiming in and clarifying, best of luck with your hiring! as I was saying I definitely think it's a net positive for everybody to harness your interviewees' effort to improve open source packages that you care about as opposed to just wasting it on contrived exercises not benefiting anybody.
There's also the fact that if more companies adopt this approach candidates could technically do a single open source challenge to apply to multiple companies :)