This week, for our Release 0.2, we were asked to sign up for Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of all things open-source!
During Hacktoberfest, software developers worldwide contribute to open-source projects, particularly to issues labeled with hacktoberfest. We need to have 4 approved pull requests by the end of the month, which means one pull request per week.
For our first pull request, we were allowed to look for any issue labeled good first issue to get our foot in the open-source world.
The challenge wasn't the issue itself but rather finding it. It seems many repository owners take advantage of Hacktoberfest and its labels by creating fake good first issues and labeling them with hacktoberfest, even though they are not good first issues at all and the repository was freshly created!
However, after experimenting a little with GitHub's advanced search feature, I found a good one!
I chose this issue. While it involved little work, it helped me conquer my fear of forks! It was a great way to begin my Hacktoberfest journey. The issue was straightforward: adding a new list item to the README.md. The time it took to fork the repository and clone it was longer than the time it took to complete the issue! However, the process of forking, communicating with the repository owner, and creating my first open-source pull request from my forked branch made this a good first issue indeed!
Moving forward, I am looking forward to tackling bigger and more challenging issues during Hacktoberfest!
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