What is HACKTOBERFEST?

Hacktoberfest, in its 8th year, is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean. During the month of October, we invite you to join open-source software enthusiasts, beginners, and the developer community by contributing to open-source projects. You can do this in a variety of ways:

• Prepare and share your project for collaboration
• Contribute to the betterment of a project via pull requests
• Organize an event
• Mentor others
• Donate directly to open source projects

How Does It Work?

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community!

• Maintainers determine if their open-source projects participate by adding the ‘hacktoberfest’ topic.
• Quality Pull Requests pull requests submitted on GitHub and GitLab are rewarded.
• Engaged maintenance of Hacktoberfest tagged repositories are rewarded.

Rules:

• Pull requests can be made in any participating GitHub or GitLab hosted repository/projects. Look for the 'hacktoberfest' topic to know if a project is participating in Hacktoberfest.
• You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31. Just be sure to sign up on the official Hacktoberfest website for your pull requests to count.

Details:

• The pull request must contain commits you made yourself.
• If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam, it will not be counted toward your participation in Hacktoberfest.
• If a maintainer reports behavior that’s not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.
• A pull request is considered approved once it has an overall approving review from maintainers, or has been merged by maintainers, or has been given the 'hacktoberfest-accepted' label.