Update by Digital Ocean
We will honor all valid pull requests prior to this change, and as of October 3, 2020 at 12:00:00 UTC – and October 3 in all time zones – pull requests will only count toward earning a T-shirt or planting a tree if they are submitted in a repository classified with the ‘hacktoberfest’ topic. The pull requests will also need to be merged, approved by a maintainer, or labeled as ‘hacktoberfest-accepted’ in order to qualify. The deadline for completions, merging, labeling, and approving is November 1.
To put it in terms that folks will more easily understand:
PRs count if:
Submitted in a repo with the hacktoberfest topic AND
during the month of October AND (
The PR is merged OR
The PR is labelled as hacktoberfest-accepted by a maintainer OR
The PR has been approved
)