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Hacktoberfest 2021 Discussion Thread

dev.to staff on October 01, 2021

Hacktoberfest 2021 is a community celebration of open source. So, whether you're contributing to open source projects or reviewing PRs as an open...

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Bobby Iliev • Oct 1 '21

Good luck everyone! If anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out to me, I will be happy to help!

Mohit Saxena • Oct 2 '21

Hey can you help me please? 2 of my PRs have been merged but on my Hacktoberfest profile it is showing "Matures in 14 days". What does it mean? Did it count? My PR was accepted and merged.

Bobby Iliev • Oct 2 '21

Hi there 👋

Yes this is normal. Just keep in mind that the October 31st deadline is for submitting a Pull Request. But as long as your pull request is not marked as invalid or spam during the 14-day maturing period, it'll count for the event (even if the maturing period goes beyond Oct 31st).

For more information you could check out the FAQ page here:

hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/faq

Srinjoy Mukherjee • Oct 2 '21

I am a first Timer and I am facing the same issue as well.Have you figured it out?

Mohit Saxena • Oct 2 '21

not yet.

PrabanjanRaja • Oct 2 '21

how can I find projects to make contributions to?
I am an absolute beginner and this is my first experience with opensource

Bobby Iliev • Oct 2 '21

Hi there 👋

You can take a look at this list here as a starting point:

8 Open Source Projects to Contribute to - Hacktoberfest 2021

Bobby Iliev ・ Sep 30 ・ 3 min read

#opensource #hacktoberfest #tailwindcss #devops

Besides that I would recommend checking out the instructions page here:

hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/res...

Hope that this helps!

Jayendran Arumugam • Oct 4 '21

Hi I made a success PR which is merged on the terraform-azurerm provider repo, unfortunately i get the message as Project not participating

Does that mean this PR is not counted toward the competetion ?

Srinjoy Mukherjee • Oct 4 '21

OOh, looks like the project does not have hacktoberfest tag in it, ask the maintainer to tag the pr request with hacktoberfest-accepted tag , maybe it will be accepted as 1 entry. Read the rules again.