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Contributing to Open Source

Daniel Hintz on September 26, 2020

Hi All! With DigitalOcean, DEV, and Intel once again hosting Hacktoberfest to get people contributing to Open Source, I thought I'd share my exper...
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Yash_Jaiswal

I'm so glad that I came across this post. Thank you for making this post explaining the git in such a simplified and practical way. It's my 12 th time that I refer this post for clarifying any doubts. Thanks a lot!🙏❤️💻

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Daniel Hintz

That's awesome, I'm so glad it helps you! Thank you for sharing that!

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Manik Malhotra • Edited

Explained it so well.
I was really confused about how to start contributing to OSS and participate in hacktoberfest.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Daniel.

How can I search for projects on android application development?
Is there any perticular hashtags for references?

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Daniel Hintz

Hi Manik,

If I click the Issues tab and search for "is:open is:issue label:hacktoberfest android" I get results, the first one right now is about a stopwatch/timer app in Android which sounds relevant. You can add a particular language to the search if you want as well ("language:javascript" for example).

Hope that helps!

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Manik Malhotra

That was a great help. Things are much more clear now.
Thanks, Daniel.

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Karen Efereyan

Nice one Daniel. Will you be participating in hacktober fest? Which projects do you have in mind?

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Daniel Hintz

I sure am! I'll be looking for some React or JS projects that are easy to jump into without a ton of research. I've already found a small project improving a chat UI for a company I'm hoping to work for, so I'm pretty excited to work on that one. How about you, are you participating?

P.S. - loved your article on Chrome extensions, Wappalyzer is my new favorite thing!
dev.to/developerkaren/chrome-exten...

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Karen Efereyan

Thanks. I do want to participate. I'm hoping I can find a project not too difficult. I'm looking to contribute to forem

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Daniel Hintz

Check this list out, they're all "easy", unclaimed issues on forem:
github.com/forem/forem/issues?q=is...

Good luck!

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Karen Efereyan

Thanks so much for this

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Daniel Hintz

You're welcome!

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SajidSamsad

Hi, nicely written. Loved it!!

Btw, for Hacktober fest, does it require to register somewhere?

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Daniel Hintz

Thanks! Yes, you just need to register here: hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ After that, you just need to create pull requests via GitHub and it'll be automatically tracked, as long as the project maintainer doesn't mark it as spam.

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SajidSamsad

Thanks for the link. Just registered. So if I start committing now and raise a PR from October 1 will it be counted or the commit date also has to be from October 01, 2020?

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Daniel Hintz

I'm guessing it's just the pull request that needs to be submitted after Oct 1, regardless of when you make the commits. But I'm not totally sure.

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SajidSamsad

Thanks