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Hacktoberfest 2021 Discussion Thread

dev.to staff on October 01, 2021

Hacktoberfest 2021 is a community celebration of open source. So, whether you're contributing to open source projects or reviewing PRs as an open...
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Bobby Iliev

Good luck everyone! If anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to me, I will be happy to help!

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Mohit Saxena

Hey can you help me please? 2 of my PRs have been merged but on my Hacktoberfest profile it is showing "Matures in 14 days". What does it mean? Did it count? My PR was accepted and merged.

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Bobby Iliev

Hi there πŸ‘‹

Yes this is normal. Just keep in mind that the October 31st deadline is for submitting a Pull Request. But as long as your pull request is not marked as invalid or spam during the 14-day maturing period, it'll count for the event (even if the maturing period goes beyond Oct 31st).

For more information you could check out the FAQ page here:

hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq

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Srinjoy Mukherjee

I am a first Timer and I am facing the same issue as well.Have you figured it out?

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Mohit Saxena

not yet.

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PrabanjanRaja

how can I find projects to make contributions to?
I am an absolute beginner and this is my first experience with opensource

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Bobby Iliev

Hi there πŸ‘‹

You can take a look at this list here as a starting point:

Besides that I would recommend checking out the instructions page here:

hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/res...

Hope that this helps!

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Jayendran Arumugam

Hi I made a success PR which is merged on the terraform-azurerm provider repo, unfortunately i get the message as Project not participating

Does that mean this PR is not counted toward the competetion ?

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Srinjoy Mukherjee

OOh, looks like the project does not have hacktoberfest tag in it, ask the maintainer to tag the pr request with hacktoberfest-accepted tag , maybe it will be accepted as 1 entry. Read the rules again.

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Ben Halpern
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deathrangerr

I have registered for hacktoberfest, but i have very little idea about what to do or where to start from

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Sambhav Agrawal

I just completed my Hacktoberfest 2021 with 4 successful PR's. So can I get some other goodies apart from the Hacktoberfest T-shirt?