[hzia]

In the early days, we used to pay devs for every PR. That in-fact caused the issue you mentioned where devs would start chasing rewards. Now, devs are paid as a base either way, with light incentives if the PRs are merged with low review cycles and good ratings.

To prevent “Hacktoberfest” style PRs, we have a strong peer review system internally along with QA. Which is the reason why most of the above open source projects have found it a lot easier to merge GitStart PRs than the PRs by juniors posted directly

I do wonder though how we this problem can be solved for all junior devs contributing to OSS