Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Hacktoberfest has always been a nice start for contributors. This year I contributed into two repositories.

I got two prs merged at forem/forem this year. I recently found out that there’s actually a dev badge for contributing to forem as well. I hope I’ll receive it too if someone notice the post haha 😄

The other repository I found was from the digital ocean’s discord and I did some really meaningful contributions. The maintainer and I became good friends and he asked me if I wanna help him maintain the repository. So I was mostly maintaining the project alongside contributing to it as well.

This year taught me how to properly manage a repository structure. how we can guide the contributors & how we help them get started. I’ve always been writing the structured code which is always good for others to understand and work on and I got really positive reviews from contributors as well that they really liked working on the issues that were assigned to them.

I helped almost every contributor to do meaningful contributions, letting them know what exactly should we do clearly as communicating effectively is the key. I got one of my team member (friend) to get started with opensource and he’s been really motivated to contribute more to opensource in the free time.

I’ve even learnt some new tech alongside the working with open-source. contributing to forem helped me learn so many things how scalable products are made. Its really fun to study system designs :)

At last I would say that this hacktoberfest has been really great for me. plus point is I got tees as well so I have something to show off too 😄 I hope u guys liked the post. I’m not really as good at writing but trust me, my code-bases are really clean & easy to navigate.