Some of you may be familiar with the annual Hacktoberfest event, hosted by DigitalOcean:
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ This year, Jackson project will be participating more officially with this event, partly due to involvement by my employer (which also means there should be additional Swag to be sent to contributors, beyond what global event offers). I will share more details once they become available -- including blog posts I am working on to introduce Jackson to a wider audience -- but here is what I know right now. First, this year there will be an additional limitation wherein qualified Pull Requests need to be for issues marked specifically (I assume the label would be "hacktoberfest" or "hacktoberfest2020"). This is meant to make it easier for maintainers to avoid getting spurious submissions (in the past there have been cases of submissions that try to game the system) -- I think in practice this means that maintainers can add this label either ahead of time, or, when getting a submission for legit issue. I will start creating labels for Jackson repos, as a small preparation step. I am also thinking that this would be a good time to update READMEs of components/repos to include information on maintainers. I think READMEs of Scala and Kotlin modules are updated; please let me know if you think you would like to be added (either just include github handle as someone who can help; or, if you would like to step up as a maintainer, would be more than happy to give access to anyone who has contributed something for a repo). And beyond brushing up on landing pages, one of blog posts I am writing right now will include information on specific projects (modules / repos) that are looking for help. So if you are a maintainer, I would be interested in including information on what contributors could help with. My current thinking is that: 1. Language modules -- Kotlin, Scala -- are probably the "most deserving" components: both have active maintainers, as well as many requests, activity. Would be happy to include something to outline best areas to help (tagging issues helps too) 2. Dataformat modules see lots of traffic as well; help with Avro, CSV, Protobuf, XML, YAML? 3. Many of datatype modules easy to start with: Java 8 date/time possibly gets most requests (and could be easy to help with) -- but Hibernate module fundamentally most in need of someone willing to dig deep I will share my blog posts once they are published (going through the corporate review process takes time, alas). -+ Tatu +- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jackson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jackson-dev/CAL4a10h37VqyiASQO5ME9YBrxs7wKjwxWNq%2BNpRRnvS5Q%3DLhhw%40mail.gmail.com.
