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Hacktoberfest 2024

Mark Waite
Mark Waite September 30, 2024

Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is back! Join us as we celebrate and support open-source during October. Contributors can earn badges and improve their open source contribution skills.

The Jenkins community will participate once again in the event. We invite you to contribute to Jenkins projects but also, as maintainers, to welcome and help newcomers.

Contributors

This is what contributors need to know to participate and complete Hacktoberfest:

  • Register anytime between September 23 and October 31

  • Pull requests can be made in any jenkinsci or jenkins-infra GitHub project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the "hacktoberfest" topic)

  • Project maintainers must accept your pull requests for them to count toward your total

  • Have 4 pull requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest

Jenkins specific details can be found on the Jenkins Hacktoberfest page.

Some good resources for beginners can be found here:

The improve a plugin tutorial is a video introduction to Jenkins contribution.

Maintainers

Jenkins plugin maintainers can prepare for Hacktoberfest contributions by following these best practices:

  • Add the "hacktoberfest" topic to your repository to OPT-IN TO HACKTOBERFEST and indicate you’re looking for contributions

  • Apply the "good first issue" label to issues you want contributors to help with in your GitHub project

  • Add a CONTRIBUTING.md file with contribution guidelines to your repository

  • Choose issues that have a well-defined scope and are self-contained

  • Be ready to review pull requests, accepting those that are valid by merging them, leaving an overall approving review, or by adding the "hacktoberfest-accepted" label

  • Reject any spammy requests you receive by labeling them as "spam" and any other invalid contributions by closing them or labeling them as "invalid"

About the author

Mark Waite

Mark Waite

Mark is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a long-time Jenkins user and contributor, a core maintainer, and maintainer of the git plugin, the git client plugin, the platform labeler plugin, the embeddable build status plugin, and several others. He is one of the authors of the "Improve a plugin" tutorial.

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