Hacktoberfest is a month-long event of open-source with various software developers from all over the world participating in it, bringing their ideas to life through various projects. It encompasses a month-long jam of skill enhancement, contribution to numerous projects and broadening of the developers’ community. Coding enthusiasts and even beginners to open-source can contribute to these projects by preparing and sharing the project for collaboration and by contributing to the betterment of the project via pull requests.
Branching Structure
There is one main repository, named Hacktoberfest under which there are subfolders for Beginner level coding problems and other domains such as App dev, Web Dev, Java development, Python programming.
Beginner-level coding problems are meant for coding enthusiasts who are starting their journey in programming and want a superb hands-on experience of Open-source as well.
The domains are categorized under advanced and intermediate projects folder which is a place intended for projects mounting to those particular difficulty levels.
Contributors are welcome to give their projects inside the domains specified, of their choice and push requests.
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31.
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic).
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total.
Have 4 pull/merge 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.
More rules can ve viewed in the official website of Hacktoberfest.
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