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by bbrazil 2084 days ago
> I would even take it a step further and allow maintainers the ability to cherry pick certain issues they'd like to put up for hacktober.

At least for Prometheus the ones we tagged with hacktoberfest are ones we'd expect a new developer to have a good chance to be able to complete.

I don't think we should be disincentive people who attempt to instead tackle more thorny issues.