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After a month of searching and contributing to 4 different repos, I am glad to say that I am finally done with this year Hacktoberfest!
It has been a great experience, and now I feel much more confident as a developer and a contributor.
My pull request blog posts
Skills and techniques I learned
First and foremost, what I accomplished in October was that I expanded my Git and GitHub skills. If I compare what I knew and could do a month ago and now regarding git, it would seem like 2 different people.
Another valuable thing I learnt is how projects are usually structured and set up for installation. Docker, docker-compose, pnpm, Python requirements & vendors, and much more. By learning how big repos structure and design their solutions, I can improve my future projects and workspace.
Not without struggles, of course
If someone would ask of I'd like to try Hacktoberfest next year too, I would hesitate. Working on things and contributing to world-changing projects is really fun; however searching for possible issues isn't as much fun.
In total, I believe I spent over 12 hours simply searching for fitting issues and repositories. Maybe if I make a list of repositories I like or come up with a better searching technique, I would try Hacktoberfest again. 'Issue-searcher' also seems like a good idea for a project to create!
Summary
Hacktoberfest really gives you a chance and motivation to try new tools or strengthen one's skills. This was a great challenge and it is very relieving to be done with it!
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