Hacktoberfest 2018 - contribute to open source, get a free t-shirt!

[bts (Brendan Schlagel)]

Just came across this:

Hacktoberfest '21

Seems like a good way to encourage contributions to open source projects like Discourse Here are the official guides on meta for how to contribute:

How to Contribute to Discourse

We frequently hear from people who are passionate about Discourse looking for a way to give back. To which we reply: You’re awesome! And of course we can tell you more about how to contribute. Everyone is welcome Discourse is an open source project. A common misconception is that the only way to contribute to an open source project is by sharing code, when in fact there are countless other contributions that we love seeing just as much. We’ll try highlight the m…

Discourse Development Contribution Guidelines

Environment Before you begin hacking on Discourse, you need to set yourself up with a good development environment. Check out the appropriate guide for your platform: All Platforms Setting up Docker in VirtualBox for production testing Mac OS X GitHub: Developing under OS X Without Vagrant Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on macOS for Development Linux (Ubuntu) Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Development Windows Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Window…

Many large projects are tagged on GitHub e.g. “good first issue” to indicate possible entry points for less experienced developers to get their feet wet. I see the #starter-task tag here on meta seems to be the similar thing for Discourse. Perhaps more things could be given this tag?

#starter-task

This could also be a good opportunity for plugin developers to point out some entry points for new contributions.

Personally (for example) I don’t have much experience with Ruby or JS but would be happy to try my hand at things like CSS fixes, documentation improvements, or perhaps a simple task for the WP Discourse plugin.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Sure and @erlend_sh our highest priority should be improving these “getting started” documents as we can, based on any feedback we get. Can you make sure that happens?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Thanks for posting this, I mentioned it on our @discourse Twitter account!

I think we’re a bit low on #starter-task topics right now because we just had an intensive Outreachy engagement this summer. But if anyone reading this knows of anything that they think would be a good starter task, please feel free to note that in a new reply and we’ll take a look to confirm. (I say that only because in our experience “looks easy!” isn’t always the case, depending on what it is.)

And there are probably some simple #bug topics out there that could be solved without too much work, if anything appeals.

Also, new and improved translations are always welcome! See Translating Discourse with Transifex