My First Hacktoberfest Experience

Secondly, I filtered it out more by selecting “No assignees” from the assignee’s section under GitHub’s advanced search so that I don’t waste time on exploring the issues that are already assigned.

. The issue was to create a quiz on functional programming in a specified format. I created the quiz and sent the pull request.

I was asked for some modifications from the maintainers. After all the modifications my PR got merged. This happiness of getting your PR merged hits differently.

The most important thing I learned from here was that before contributing to any project make sure that you have read the contributing guidelines. Also, be patient as this thing takes time.

ToolJet

The second was an issue in

Completing 2 of them gave me the boost to complete Hacktoberfest 2024.

And now comes the last one.

My 4th PR didn’t follow this standard process of getting assigned and then contributing. In this case, while I was exploring the project Makaut Buddy, I found some inconsistencies in the UI.

I thought of opening an issue as this project was actively participating in Hacktoberfest 2024. I opened the issue and also got assigned to it for work along with the #hacktoberfest label on the issue.

That gave me the final relief. I made all the changes and my PR got merged.

Here is my PR:

Lessons I learnt

Now here’s the summary of the lessons I learnt from my whole Hacktoberfest experience.

• Before contributing to any project make sure that you have read the contributing guidelines.




• Make sure you start working on the issue after getting assigned.(This is followed in most of the repositories).




• Be patient while working on any issue and be collaborative.

Wrapping up

This was all about my Hacktoberfest experience and learnings.

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