- Hacktoberfest is a Month-Long challenge. It happens every year in the month of October.
- Hacktoberfest is open to everyone and it marks the celebration of Open Source. It's the biggest Open Source event that encourages newbies to participate in Open Source and create their 1st meaningful PR.
- Hacktoberfest will be hosted by Digital Ocean for the 8th year in a row in partnership with GitHub and other companies.
- Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community.
- All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
- Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
- Create a Github / Gitlab account, if you are struggling to start one have a look at this.
- Register for Hacktoberfest: Navigate to the Hacktoberfest registration page and follow the instructions. But, read the rules carefully before you do and then sign In using your GitHub credentials.
- Find good projects worth contributing on the GitHub page. You can type
label:hactoberfest is:issue is:open - You can add a language label of your choice to filter open issues. If you are a beginner and can’t find good issues then there’s tag
label:good first issuewhich filters out issues for beginners who want to contribute.
- Submit PRs: Try and submit at least 4 PRs and wait for it to be verified. Make sure to submit quality PRs.
- To earn your Hacktoberfest tee or tree reward, you must register and make four valid pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone).
- Pull requests can be made in any participating GitHub or GitLab hosted repository/project. Look for the
hacktoberfesttopic to know if a repository/project is participating in Hacktoberfest. - Pull requests must be approved by a maintainer of the repository/project to count.
- If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.
For your PR to count it must be:
- Submitted in a public repo, and the PR must be labelled as
hacktoberfest-acceptedby a maintainer. or - Submitted in a repo labelled
hacktoberfest, AND Merged, OR Approved - You can opt not to receive a t-shirt and stickers and you can choose to have a tree planted in your name and help make Hacktoberfest 2021 more carbon neutral.
- You can write cheatsheets of various stacks and link them in the main index page.
- While adding any content it should be inside its appropiate directory.
- If you find any inappropriate or better solution you can create an issue.
- Add your name to the
CONTRIBUTORS.mdfile - Get a detailed overview of contributing guidelines visit the Contributing Guidlines
- Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page)
- Clone your fork down to your local machine
git clone <link>
- Create a branch
git checkout -b branch-name
- Make your changes
- Commit and push
git add .
git commit -m 'Commit message'
git push origin branch-name
- Create a new pull request from your forked repository (Click the
New Pull Requestbutton located at the top of your repo) - Wait for your PR review and merge approval!
- Star this repository if you had fun!
