Hacktoberfest is a month-long event of open-source with various software developers from all over the world participating in it, bringing their ideas to life through various projects. It encompasses a month-long jam of skill enhancement, contribution to numerous projects and broadening of the developers’ community. Coding enthusiasts and even beginners to open-source can contribute to these projects by preparing and sharing the project for collaboration and by contributing to the betterment of the project via pull requests.
Branching Structure
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There is one main repository, named Hacktoberfest under which there are subfolders for Beginner level coding problems and other domains such as App dev, Web Dev, Java development, Python programming.
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Beginner-level coding problems are meant for coding enthusiasts who are starting their journey in programming and want a superb hands-on experience of Open-source as well.
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The domains are categorized under advanced and intermediate projects folder which is a place intended for projects mounting to those particular difficulty levels.
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Contributors are welcome to give their projects inside the domains specified, of their choice and push requests.
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Register anytime between September 26 and October 31.
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Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic).
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Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total.
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Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest.
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The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
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More rules can ve viewed in the official website of Hacktoberfest.
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