Once again, Hacktoberfest is back! During this October event, everyone can celebrate and support open-source by contributing changes and can earn limited edition swag.
September is the perfect time to prepare for Hacktoberfest. Get a jump start by finding projects to contribute to, adding "Hacktoberfest" tag to your projects, or familiarizing yourself with Git.
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 26 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
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt
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
A good introduction to Jenkins contribution is the series Modernizing Jenkins plugins recorded livestreams. Or even better, join us at our workshop at DevOps World on September 27, 2022 (use discount code: DW22JENKINSRTE).
Maintainers
Jenkins and plugin maintainers need also to get ready for Hacktoberfest by preparing your project for 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 "hacktoberfest" 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
Adopt a code of conduct to create a greater sense of inclusion and community for contributors
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"