{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21","id":115736933,"number":21,"title":"Address potential burden on project maintainers","user":{"login":"ncoghlan","id":1026649,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1026649?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan","html_url":"https://github.com/ncoghlan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ncoghlan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-11-08T14:32:42Z","updated_at":"2015-11-08T15:27:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"While the idea of having a global \"start contributing to open source day\" is an interesting one, it's also entirely possible for such events to backfire and create more work for already overloaded volunteer maintainers.\r\n\r\nIan Cordasco discusses some of those potential problems in his post at http://www.coglib.com/~icordasc/blog/2015/11/corporations-and-oss-do-not-mix.html\r\n\r\nThe most relevant problem is that for quite a few open source projects, the problems for maintainers aren't whether or not submissions are coming in, but rather the quality of those submissions, and the time needed to review them.\r\n\r\nOpenHatch aims to connect projects looking for new contributors with folks looking for projects to contribute to, so it's potentially worth talking to them about possible ways to address this concern while still preserving the \"Get involved upstream!\" spirit of the event.\r\n\r\n(If I've correctly understood that intended spirit, then a name like \"Swim Upstream Day\" seems to better reflect that intent than simply \"Pull Request Day\", as the latter suggests one-off contributions to me, rather than an ongoing change to the way we interact with a community)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/comments/154833579","html_url":"https://github.com/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21#issuecomment-154833579","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pullrequestday/pullrequestday/issues/21","id":154833579,"user":{"login":"sigmavirus24","id":240830,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/240830?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24","html_url":"https://github.com/sigmavirus24","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sigmavirus24/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-08T15:27:06Z","updated_at":"2015-11-08T15:27:06Z","body":"@nedbat yeah, that's something that was kind of implied in my line of reasoning around guides for new contributors getting started and such. Thank you for making that explicit"}}