[wallmountedtv]

I think we can see to Hacktoberfest as a comparison to this "let external junior devs to deal with backlog" idea. And this project gives the same fear and worries of that "chase for the cheapest PR to get my reward"-logic as that which Hacktoberfest encourages.

While GitStart pays their developers, that alone could encourage better habits, I fear it could also enable this chasing reward mentality harder, setting the juniors up for failure, as well as frustrating the customer with having to deny and review multiple low-quailty PRs.

How is this avoided? This seems heavily at risk to cause more headache than help.

[hzia]

In the early days, we used to pay devs for every PR. That in-fact caused the issue you mentioned where devs would start chasing rewards. Now, devs are paid as a base either way, with light incentives if the PRs are merged with low review cycles and good ratings.

To prevent “Hacktoberfest” style PRs, we have a strong peer review system internally along with QA. Which is the reason why most of the above open source projects have found it a lot easier to merge GitStart PRs than the PRs by juniors posted directly

I do wonder though how we this problem can be solved for all junior devs contributing to OSS