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Hacktoberfest Finale

Hello to all,
I got all of my pull requests accepted and wanted to share a few details about my experience and maybe give some advice to anyone who want to try open source coding out.



This was my first experience with Hacktoberfest and I learned about it from my open-source course professor, David. I will be honest, I was terrified when I started with this., because for the first time ever, I was going to work on a random strangers code. Due to this I was panicking thinking we had "only a month" to complete this and there was not enough time. I started as soon as October 1st struck looking for possible repositories that I could contribute with. I went at a decent pace, and overtime I did complete all four pull requests. Overall, everything turned out even better than I expected and now I have already done the required amount of PRs accepted although procrastinated on the blogs because one for each week.

Tips

  1. Use GitHub's features to your advantage
    Use CI integration so that newly submitted PRs are run through checks before you merge them and take advantage of GitHub's issues and PR templates.

  2. Communicate with the owner of the Repository
    Make certain that your contributors are also communicating about the issues they are working on. For example, during high-traffic periods such as Hacktoberfest, it is very easy for multiple people to create PRs for the same issue, which eventually conflict with each other.

3.Improve existing skills
There is a task for you on open source projects if you're looking for practice in any of the following areas: coding, user interface design, graphic design, writing, or organizing.

Final Thoughts:

Though it was a bit finicky at first, I had a lot of fun contributing, and even when there were issues, it was resolved. I might even participate next year even without this being a project, and expand my horizons even more.

It was a pleasure participating in this event.

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