Hacktoberfest is back! Join us as we celebrate and support open-source during October. Contributors can earn badges and improve their open source contribution skills.
The Jenkins community will participate once again in the event. We invite you to contribute to Jenkins projects but also, as maintainers, to welcome and help newcomers.
Contributors
This is what contributors need to know to participate and complete Hacktoberfest:
Register anytime between September 23 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any jenkinsci or jenkins-infra GitHub project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the "hacktoberfest" topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
Jenkins specific details can be found on the Jenkins Hacktoberfest page.
Some good resources for beginners can be found here:
Intro to Open Source
DigitalOcean: Introduction to GitHub and Open Source projects
GitHub: How to contribute to Open Source
DigitalOcean: What is Open Source
DigitalOcean: How to use Git
Sharpen your skills
The improve a plugin tutorial is a video introduction to Jenkins contribution.
Maintainers
Jenkins plugin maintainers can prepare for Hacktoberfest contributions by following these best practices:
Add the "hacktoberfest" topic to your repository to OPT-IN TO HACKTOBERFEST and indicate you’re looking for contributions
Apply the "good first issue" label to issues you want contributors to help with in your GitHub project
Add a CONTRIBUTING.md file with contribution guidelines to your repository
Choose issues that have a well-defined scope and are self-contained
Be ready to review pull requests, accepting those that are valid by merging them, leaving an overall approving review, or by adding the "hacktoberfest-accepted" label
Reject any spammy requests you receive by labeling them as "spam" and any other invalid contributions by closing them or labeling them as "invalid"