Hacktoberfest 2023 - Contributor to Project Admin
What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is an open-source contribution challenge held each year in October. It is a month-long celebration of open-source software run by DigitalOcean and DEV. The main purpose is to give its participants an introductory idea about open source contribution.
Eligibility Criteria
This event is open to all who are involved in open-source matters of expertise level and even professionals can take part in it. Most Importantly there's no language barrier to contribute. It doesn't matter whether someone doesn't know the JS libraries or frameworks.
Guidelines for contributions
Need to complete at least four successful contributions during the event.
As much as someone can contribute to the multiple times, there are no rules behind it
Whenever any pull requests are raised, they should have proper labels and difficulty levels.
Once the contribution is approved by maintainers it will undergo 14 days period to be officially checked by the Hacktoberfest team.
Make sure the contribution is not spam or duplicate. It will be marked as "Spam". Try not to do it
Once done, at the end of the month will get notified by the official team to get the swags.
Try to work on open fresh Issues created by 'You' or the 'Project Admin'
All the Issues are first serve first-served basis.
How to create a pull request?
1. Fork the repository.
2. Clone the forked repository.
git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/
3. Navigate to the project directory.
cd Project-Name
4. Create a new branch.
git checkout -b <your_branch_name>
5. Make changes.
6. Stage your changes and commit
git add -A
git commit -m "<your_commit_message>"
7. Push your local commits to the remote repo.
git push -u origin <your_branch_name>
8. Create a PR to develop!
9. Congratulations! :tada: Sit and relax, you've made your contribution to Project-Name💥
Projects from last year 2022
Last year I participated as project admin for the first time. Here're the projects that were successfully worked on by contributors ->
Preptember 2022
Just a suggestion always try to push practice pull requests first then Jump into the actual projects.
Important Blogs
The registration will start on September 26th,2023