This year was the first time I heard about Hacktoberfest, and it has been just an amazing experience.
As the creator and maintainer of Orchid, I was completely amazed and humbled to get its first PRs from other contributors this month, and it also hit 100 stars on Github! So I just wanted to say thanks and brag on these folks a bit:
- I have been in a process of migrating all of Orchid's code from Java to Kotlin, and Andrey Mochalov helped greatly with that effort, converting several dozen files.
- Yaroslav Matveychuk added a new publication mechanism, which creates a Github Release at the same time as the site is published. This has been really nice, as Orchid's own release notes are now being updated with every new version.
- Bastien Jansen created a Maven plugin, so that Orchid sites can be easily integrated into Maven projects and continuously deployed right along with the project. Previously, only Gradle was supported.
But I also contributed back to the open-source community as a contributor as well, and here are my final stats:
I have been working to get both https://strikt.io/ and http://pebbletemplates.github.io/pebble/ building and deploying their documentation sites with Orchid. These are both really great projects, I've been using them for quite a while, and you should definitely go check them out!
What projects did you help out with this Hacktoberfest?
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Integration with update version and plugin, and deployment of documentation sites, which needs a lot of help from open source of Hacktoberfest as well as other professionals. Ummm, sounds like a huge project. Does it prove the real matter of open source? How about Red Hat.