📢 HMPL is participating in Hacktoberfest 2025!

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

This is a submission for the 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Maintainer Spotlight

Hello everyone! This is the second year in a row that our project is participating in Hacktoberfest.

This is a huge milestone for us, as the project has grown quite significantly over this time. There's more code, it's become better, but most importantly, we've had the opportunity to work with so many great developers!

And this year, we'd like to do more, and we've prepared a huge number of cool tasks that you can complete.

Well, let's get started! 🏎️

👻 About the festival

This festival has been held since 2013. Here, you can discover a sea of interesting open-source projects, participation in which will give you valuable experience that will help you in your career.

There, you'll also be able to meet a wide range of developers from all over the world. And as a nice bonus, you'll receive badges that you can attach to your resume or to your GitHub README.

🌱 Our participation there

As I mentioned earlier, our first festival was in 2024. Back then, we were uploading an old repository. It had about 50 stars at the time. I'd show a screenshot, but the old Discord channel is now closed, so the messages there have been deleted. There are only forks of the old removed repository, but the pull requests are not preserved.

But still, back then, when I was working on the project alone, it was really cool to get a pull request from a developer for a fix to my code for the first time in my life! It just so happened to be Hacktoberfest time. Therefore, I am grateful to this festival.

👀 What now?

We've prepared a lot for today, so you can participate in the project's development! Here's a short list of what we've prepared for you:

🐛 We have 25+ issues that will suit both experienced users and beginners
🌱 If your pull request is successful, your GitHub profile will be posted on our website. You can share it with potential employers if you wish.

And also just respect from our team :)