fix(ci): correct the Hacktoberfest tracker's open-issue count and add a countdown

[priya-sundaram-dev]

@cclauss — this addresses both of your review notes.

Not an algorithm change — this is a CI/tracker fix, so the algorithm-specific checkboxes below don't apply. Marking the ones that do so the keeper doesn't auto-close it again.

The 621 bug

docs/hacktober_2026_prep.md reported Open issues: 621 when the repo has 107. Root cause: GitHub's /search/issues is:issue / is:pr qualifiers are unreliable on a repo this large and high-churn — some runs return the pull-request pool for both queries, which is why "Open issues" and "Open pull requests" printed the same number (621).

I replaced the two search calls with deterministic ones:

• open PRs — the Link: rel="last" page number of /repos/{repo}/pulls?state=open&per_page=1 (that endpoint still uses page-numbered pagination, so the last page number is the count);
• open issues — the repo endpoint's open_issues_count (which counts issues and PRs) minus the open-PR total. Self-checking: 728 − 621 = 107. ✅

(The awaiting reviews line still uses search; I paginated it fully and confirmed 458 is the true count, so I left it — happy to harden it the same way if you'd like.)

New Hacktoberfest countdown

Added the three metrics you asked for to ## Automated statistics:

• Days until Hacktoberfest (2026-10-01)
• Issues to close per day to clear the backlog
• Pull requests to merge or close per day to clear the backlog

Per-day numbers round up (finishing a day early beats a day late) and degrade to a plain message once Hacktoberfest starts, so the block never divides by zero on the final day.

Live output (regenerated into the doc)

- **Open issues:** 107
- **Open pull requests:** 621
- **Open PRs labelled `awaiting reviews`:** 458
- **Days until Hacktoberfest (2026-10-01):** 22
- **Issues to close per day to clear the backlog:** 5 per day (over 22 days)
- **Pull requests to merge or close per day to clear the backlog:** 29 per day (over 22 days)

ruff check, ruff format --check, and ty check all pass. Verified the new counters against the live API before committing.

Describe your change:

Fixes the Hacktoberfest prep tracker's Open issues count (was echoing the PR count, now deterministic) and adds the three requested countdown metrics. Touches scripts/hacktoberfest_prep_update.py and the generated docs/hacktober_2026_prep.md.

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