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by Null-Set 999 days ago
There was a trend for a while for people to open trivial PRs against popular projects, I believe in an attempt to pad their resumes.
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They can keep padding their resume if it means little fixes actually happen. Even typos and little translations, they affect the general reputability of the software. Sounds like a fair trade, especially as most hiring companies can just look at PRs and see what was actually changed very easily.
This is still a trend unfortunately.
It's called Hacktoberfest.
Hacktoberfest is coming