Hacktoberfest 2023

[Philip Durbin]

Today is the first day of Hacktoberfest! https://hacktoberfest.com

(It's a little early this year, apparently.)

My understanding is that there is no t-shirt this year but you can have a tree planted in your name.

That is, if you make pull requests, of course! Please do! We'll help get you started! Dataverse has 172 contributors according to GitHub. Join the party! 🎉

There are still 14 open issues labeled "hacktoberfest" from last year: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/labels/hacktoberfest

My plan is to go through them as well as newer issues to see what's straightforward and worth hacking on. (I encouraged others on the team to do this as well.)

I'm not going to spam this thread every time I add a label to an issue. Instead, my plan is to post updates to this Zulip thread: https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/375707-community/topic/Hacktoberfest.202023

See you on the other side of your pull requests!

Thanks!

Phil

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin

[Philip Durbin]

I labeled some more issues with "hacktoberfest", bringing the total to 26: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/labels/hacktoberfest

Two pull requests so far! Please keep them coming! Before working on an issue, please check if there is already a pull request that closes it. On the right of the issue under "Development", please make sure it doesn't say "Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue" before working on it. You can also check the issue itself. There might be a conversation, someone asking if they can work on it.

The #hacktoberfest topic on Zulip is a good place to ask questions (or you can reply here): https://dataverse.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/375707-community/topic/Hacktoberfest.202023/near/393332228

Thanks!

Phil