Yey, another Hacktoberfest post. 🥳
What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean and DEV. (...)
To participate, four pull requests must be submitted to public GitHub repositories.
You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.[1]
Hacktoberfest & me
I'm pretty active in twitter, and some of my friends posted every year about a thing called hacktoberfest. Two years ago I tried looking into it:
Free shirt? sign me in!
Contributing in open source? uhhh...
I had experience with GitHub, but not so much with contributing in other people's repositories. I was not ready.
Last year I tried again and went looking for the hacktoberfest tag, after skipping a lot of big projects (or at least too big for my confidence level) I managed one PR. Very disappointing, but I had to start somewhere.
This year I was ready, I had been checking out telegram's bot for first issues for some time already, so I knew in which kind of projects I wanted to contribute.
Even though I ended up more busy than I would like with my job, I did submit the four necessary PR. I can't say I'm not proud about it, even though they were in quite simple projects. 🎉🎉
And now what?
It would be great to write that I will now start contributing to open source on a weekly basis, but that's not what's going to happen.
I yet need the confidence -and time- to contribute in bigger projects, but I can say that I learnt a lot during this month -although I still have some questions: what I'm supposed to do when they ask to fix something in a file, but the rest of the file is also full of errors? Do I fix them? Do I create an issue?-.
I might not be ready to contribute in everything I'd like, but I'm keeping an eye on some interesting projects and I guess the anxiety of contributing will decrease with each new PR.
And now, until next year! 👩💻
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