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Some difficulties don't seem quite right

Open berry120 opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

After doing a fair few of these now, some difficulties don't seem quite right - perhaps it's just my incorrect opinion, but thought I'd put it out there anyway! As a few examples:

  • Hacktoberfest (main t-shirt) is marked as hard, but in reality it's quite easy - even PR's to fix typos count, and they can even be on your own repositories. The PR's don't even need to be accepted either.
  • Contrary to the above, the more specific Hacktoberfest t-shirts are generally a lot harder to get, as you often have to have a merged pull request on a repository constrained to those of a particular company. Most of these are marked as easier however (Nexmo in particular is rated as green, which doesn't seem right?)
  • The Google Assistant t-shirt is rated as hard, but you can actually get it without doing any coding at all (you can use a spreadsheet template to produce a trivia skill with 50 questions in without touching any code, which might take a while, but certainly isn't difficult.)

I'm sure there's others that disagree, but thought I'd throw the thought out there - certainly not going to moan if you decide they're fine as is 👍

berry120 avatar Oct 16 '18 16:10 berry120

Thanks @berry120 for raising this issue. The classification criteria was definitely on the back of my mind but I never got around to formalize it.

  • 5 meaningful PRs (keeping the spirit of open-source) should definitely be a hard task.
  • Yes, Nexmo's green is not in line with other similar ones like that of Microsoft. This should be standardized (all green or all yellow).
  • Getting users (for the Google Home) is the reason for classifying it as hard.

Just my $0.02; open to views from the community! 😇

swapagarwal avatar Oct 16 '18 16:10 swapagarwal