From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9937320A10 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751683AbdI1VTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:19:04 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:53834 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751580AbdI1VTC (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:19:02 -0400 Received: (qmail 31495 invoked by uid 109); 28 Sep 2017 21:19:03 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:19:03 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 30801 invoked by uid 111); 28 Sep 2017 21:19:41 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:19:41 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:19:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:19:00 -0400 From: Jeff King To: pedro rijo Cc: Git Users Subject: Re: hacktoberfest Message-ID: <20170928211859.uw7dep6gypsifivy@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:05:49PM +0100, pedro rijo wrote: > While the git repository itself is not hosted under GitHub, the Pro > Git book, git for Windows, and git-scm website (at least) projects > are, and could use this movement to get some more contributions, and > eventually more maintainers (at least git-scm website had some > maintainers problem some time ago). > > I've been helping on the git-scm repository (mostly filtering issues > and PRs), and I know there are still some issues which need to be > addressed. If the remaining maintainers agree, we could filter and > provide more instructions to some easy (or not so easy) issues, adding > the 'hacktoberfest' label and try to use this movement to solve some > problems I'd love it if more people wanted to contribute to the git-scm repository. I think one can probably find some low-hanging fruit by looking at the open issues list (though I'd be happy, too, if people with bug or feature suggestions opened new issues). Here are a couple small-to-moderate bugs that have been languishing: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/701 https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/987 https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/994 -Peff