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jujube32 on 19/08/2020 - 02:16 hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com (1619 clicks)
Last edited 19/08/2020 - 12:11 by 1 other user

Hacktoberfest is coming back again. Score a free T-shirt or a planted tree by making four pull requests on GitHub between October 1-31.

Swag this year:

We’re offering an alternative, environmentally friendly choice of swag: You can choose the ‘pick trees, not tees’ option to replace a Hacktoberfest T-shirt with a planted tree in celebration of your accomplishments.

Instructions from the Hacktoberfest site:

To qualify for the official Hacktoberfest swag options, you must register and make four pull requests between October 1-31. Pull requests can be made to any public repository on GitHub, not just the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with Hacktoberfest’s quality standards, you will be ineligible to participate.

Here's a guide for submitting pull requests.

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  • atlinus on 19/08/2020 - 08:18
    +2

    What considered as pull request?
    - how can you qualify if you dont know how to code or know about the project?
    Pull request needs to make some changes/modification and will notify contributors for collaboration to discuss.

    • nix1016 on 19/08/2020 - 11:27
      +3

      Use this: https://github.com/TheOzbargainer/Ozbargain-Repo
      Someone created this last year for the exact same bargain

      • kamikkels on 19/08/2020 - 13:19
        +7

        They've started marking repos like this as spam so they don't count towards your PR score
        Mostly because they've started getting inundated with users going against the spirit of the event.

      • ocoolio on 19/08/2020 - 14:37

        So trying to trick the system or actually working to create PRs to get a freebie is now considered to be a bargain

        Riiiiiiiight

    • robinCTS on 19/08/2020 - 12:11
      +5

      Read the guide that was posted in the deal:

      You don’t even need to know a programming language. You just need to choose an article you want to help improve.

      and

      Step #3: Make a pull request to a Hacktoberfest beginner's repository
      …
      Several developers have created GitHub repos specifically to help newcomers make their first pull request.

      Here's one such repository where you can get your first accepted pull request just by adding your name to its contributing.md file.

      Plus you have 43 days to learn how to code and familiarise yourself with the projects 😉

      • tdw on 19/08/2020 - 12:20
        +2

        i love that some sad ballbag is negging every comment in this thread. have a plus vote for being helpful

        • robinCTS on 19/08/2020 - 12:28
          +1

          Ohh! Thanks.

          Looks like they've maxed out todays negs. I'll just upvote every comment in this deal, like you did, to overcompensate. I'll also keep an eye out and counteract any more negs in the coming days.

          • tdw on 19/08/2020 - 12:37
            +2

            @robinCTS: for me, anway, there's a guy still triggered from over a month ago who keeps negging my comments. unfortunately for him, i comment a lot so he'll need multiple accounts to neg every one of my comments lol.

            not sure why everyone else got negged though. hacktoberfest is about getting more people into collaborating with projects (not just a free t-shirt ;) newbies are allowed to ask questions if they want to get involved.

            edit: gets even better. this post got reported for being "illegal/inappropriate." 😂 someone's having a real bad day

            • robinCTS on 19/08/2020 - 13:21
              +1

              @tdw: 😂 Might check your comments regularly and cancel the negs with upvotes. (Or maybe not - I might end up in their crosshairs 😉😉 )

              • tdw on 19/08/2020 - 13:28
                +1

                @robinCTS: aww, that's very kind of you but no need to trouble yourself ;)

                • robinCTS on 19/08/2020 - 13:37
                  +1

                  @tdw: Us Perthites need to stick together 😄 (With a minimum distance of 1.5m, though 😉)

      • owduck on 19/08/2020 - 12:59
        +3

        Note that pull requests to that repository (and similar ones) don't count towards your Hacktoberfest score.

        Good to try out a pull request though.

        I got my shirt last year by making pull requests to improve documentation. As long as they are actually helpful changes, developers are usually happy to receive them.

        • robinCTS on 19/08/2020 - 13:16
          +2

          Ah, yes. Was going to add a note that the Hello World repository pull request would probably not count, but forgot. Thanks.

  • tdw on 19/08/2020 - 09:19

    i did 8 pull reqs last year because heaps of repos were getting marked as spam, including the ozbargain one.
    if this year's logo is anything to go by, i think last year's shirt looks better.

  • Andard on 19/08/2020 - 10:47
    +3

    hmm helping the environment, or a free sweet tshirt hmmmmmmm

  • life is suffering on 19/08/2020 - 11:13
    -1

    thats what she said

  • [Deactivated] on 19/08/2020 - 12:31
    +3

    Don't use the ozbargain repo, it got marked as spam end of last year and I almost didn't get my shirt.

  • Diji1 on 19/08/2020 - 13:13
    -4

    Microsoft collecting data to sell to third parties that causes monetary losses to the participants.

  • Lobsterz7 on 19/08/2020 - 16:23
    +1

    Here we go again for 2020:

    Just create an account here
    Click on the pen here
    And enter your name for a pull request.

  • tdw on 25/09/2020 - 15:10

    registrations are open :)

  • dajackal on 30/09/2020 - 16:21

    Will there be a new repo this year? (fingers crossed)

  • tcoates on 01/10/2020 - 09:01
    +2

    If you guys want more free swag as part of Hacktoberfest, you can check out and fix up these companies repos as well.

  • endgame on 02/10/2020 - 14:05
    +2

    Please make useful changes in pull requests. Every PR you make emails each maintainer of the project, and it's causing a lot of spam: https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

  • [Deactivated] on 04/10/2020 - 21:14
    +1

    UPDATED: An update on efforts to reduce spam with Hacktoberfest: introducing maintainer opt-in and more.

    Thank you to everyone who has reached out with ideas and suggestions to help Hacktoberfest live its values of celebrating and fostering the open source community.

    After working closely with our friends at GitHub, we are happy to introduce a new measure to help significantly reduce the amount of spammy contribution. We’re making Hacktoberfest opt-in only for projects – which maintainers can do simply by adding the ‘hacktoberfest’ topic to a repository.

    This was one of the primary requests from maintainers and we are hopeful that it will help alleviate some of the issues you've been facing.

    We will honor all valid pull requests prior to this change, and as of October 3, 2020 at 12:00:00 UTC – and October 3 in all time zones – pull requests will only count toward earning a T-shirt or planting a tree if they are submitted in a repository classified with the ‘hacktoberfest’ topic. The pull requests will also need to be merged, approved by a maintainer, or labeled as ‘hacktoberfest-accepted’ in order to qualify. The deadline for completions, merging, labeling, and approving is November 1.

  • Mattapie on 05/10/2020 - 09:15

    Review period for pull requests has been extended out from 7 days to 14 days by the looks of it.

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