Hacktoberfest 2024
Welcome, Hacktoberfest participants! We’re glad to have you join us.
What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest takes place annually during the month of October. This event encourages open source contributions from the community. To participate in Hacktoberfest, you simply need to:
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Register on the Hacktoberfest site
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Submit 4 approved PRs against participating project repositories during the month of October
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You’ll unlock a digital badge when you register for Hacktoberfest, and level it up with each of your four pull/merge requests accepted during Hacktoberfest. Visit the Hacktoberfest site for more information.
Getting Started
To get started, follow the steps below:
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Create a Jira Account. Visit https://issues.redhat.com/ and click on Log In in the top right corner of the page.
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At the bottom of the Log in to your Red Hat account section, click on Register for a Red Hat account, which will lead you to a page to create an account.
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Fill in all the fields accordingly and click on Create my account.
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You will be asked to verify your email using a link sent to the email you used to register.
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Once you have successfully created and verified your account, you can go back to https://issues.redhat.com/ to log into your Jira account. You will log into this account to assign yourself issues to work on in step 4.
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Set up your development environment. We use Java 11, Maven, and Git. Follow our setup guide for your operating system: