October is close, and it is time for Hacktoberfest! If you love open source as much as we do, this event is created for you. It is a unique opportunity to be a part of a great open source community. And you get not only a memorable experience but also some fantastic prizes! You can even have a tree planted in your name, isn’t that amazing?
The aim of Hacktoberfest is to provide support to open source projects and teams maintaining them. Your contribution can be a helping hand to them. And it is a unique opportunity for you to sharpen your development skills and give back to the project you love.
This year Percona participates in this fabulous event with its open source software. You can contribute to 12 repositories with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Percona Kubernetes Operators, pg_stat_monitor, and other projects! In addition to official Hacktoberfest prizes, you can receive a piece of Percona swag: a T-shirt or a hat.
Follow these simple steps to start:
- Register on the Hacktoberfest website anytime between September 26 and October 31, 2022.
- Look through the participating projects and choose your favorites.
- Contribute to their code with PR/MRs during the period from October 1 to October 31. You should have at least four pull/merge requests accepted that meet the Hacktoberfest requirements.
- Get your prizes!
Follow the link to find all Percona GitHub repositories participating in the event. You can easily find them by searching the tag “hacktoberfest”.
We also encourage you to look through some issues that may not be that hard to complete. They may give you an idea of where to start.
You can find them:
- On GitHub, tagged with the “good-first-issue” tag.
- On Jira, tagged with “newbie”, “hacktoberfest”, and “onboarding”:
Experienced contributors check all Jira issues to find a challenging task.
Did you know that not only code contributions are welcome? Contributing to open source projects is not only for those who code. This time Hacktoberfest is making a point to boost low-code or non-code contributions. Designers, testers, content creators, translators… Even if you have little technical experience or none at all, you can have your seat at the table and use this opportunity to bump up the open source with your professional skills.
If you made a non-code contribution (for example, wrote an article or recorded a demo), create a Pull Request to our Percona Community repository with links to your work to participate in Hackroberfest. Add your contribution to our list of blog posts and videos, and follow the process of submitting changes to documentation. Other types of contributions (custom dashboards, configuration files, etc.) can be added to our developer artifacts collection.
Also, Hacktoberfest prepared some useful resources for those taking the first steps in the open source world.
The Percona team will review your PRs constantly and give you feedback. We would love to advise you and provide you with all the support that you might need. Ask any questions in the Discord chat channel and may the open source power be with you!
