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This happened quite often in openstack too. Since any contributor with a merged change a few months before the annual conference got a free entry ticket, you could see people doing trivial formatting fixes at a certain time of the year.

Similar to the issue with Digital Ocean and Hacktoberfest https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

People are always going to try to game metrics.

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from an Ironic core.

There were several months where I think we had contributors running a spell checker against patches as a review. They would miss obvious code syntax issues but would request lots of spelling changes (including British->American spelling).

You get what you measure. There's always going to be someone trying to do the absolute minimum to increment the number they get judged on.

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