Thanks for the PR, are you able to provide more context of the hashtag/your university course?

I've looked into this out of curiosity. I have not found which university runs this course but it has been running since 2022.
They use the tag to id the contributions for the class. It's mainly been typo fixing.

Btw consider letting whoever runs the course know that the arbitrary tag with 0 context is a very weird choice. Especially for a title which is sometimes automated into release notes. PR body would be a better place IMO for it but I know it's most likely not up to you.

I can confirm. I'm at the same university and funnily enough also visited that course (my PRs). For every PR with that hashtag (max. 5) you'll get points which you need to reach the best possible grade.

They use the tag to id the contributions for the class. It's mainly been typo fixing.

The only requirement is to have a merged PR with the hashtag in the title. The lecture is mostly visited by first semester students (some of whom have just learned programming), so typofixing is the best and fasted thing they can do imo.

Btw consider letting whoever runs the course know that the arbitrary tag with 0 context is a very weird choice. Especially for a title which is sometimes automated into release notes. PR body would be a better place IMO for it but I know it's most likely not up to you.

Already did, I also think it's a bad choice but the lecturer didn't want to change it (but you can still say it@MrMars98, maybe he'll change his mind if more students mention it). He uses some script to crawl all PRs the students send to him to check if the title contains the hashtag (at least it was like that when I visited it).

Already did, I also think it's a bad choice but the lecturer didn't want to change it (but you can still say it@MrMars98, maybe he'll change his mind if more students mention it). He uses some script to crawl all PRs the students send to him to check if the title contains the hashtag (at least it was like that when I visited it).

Yeah, the whole course pretty much told him that it's stupid and he said he will consider changing it for the next time he does it (he probably won't). The hashtag is unfortunately required in the title.