Originally published on tamiz. pro . For nearly a decade, Hacktoberfest operated on a simple, gamified metric: submit four pull requests to qualifying repositories in October, earn a t-shirt.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/tamizuddin/beyond-pr-counts-how-hacktoberfest-2026s-quality-first-pivot-is-reshaping-open-source-development-cii)