<html><head></head><body>I like it, anything that attempts to engage new contributors is a win in my book. Let's make sure we highlight other ways folks can contribute, including documentation (new and editing existing), translation, blog posts, bug scrubbing, etc.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 1, 2017 3:16:20 AM PDT, Oleg Nenashev <o.v.nenashev@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi all,<br /><br /></div>Last year I was proposing to push Hacktoberfest a bit and to invite new contributors using it. Unfortunately I did that too late, so it landed flat. The new Hacktoberfest starts, so I propose to try again:<a href="https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/"> https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/</a>. I should have created it before the previous governance meeting, but better late than never.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>What exactly do I propose?</div><div><ul><li>Add "hacktoberfest" labels to the key components</li><ul><li>Jenkins core, <a href="http://jenkins.io">jenkins.io</a><br /></li><li>Plugins with many installations (I am ready to add Role Strategy from my hall of shame)<br /></li><li>It's already in Remoting since the previous year (it is soooo newbie-friendly, yes)<br /></li></ul><li>Review "newbie-friendly labels", add more tickets to that</li><li>Create a blog-post announcing Hacktoberfest on <a href="http://jenkins.io">jenkins.io</a> and providing guidelines</li><ul><li>Mark Waite has already contributed some guidelines and <a href="https://jenkins.io/blog/2017/08/23/pull-requests-and-more/">call for contributions blog <br /></a></li><li>We could reference the existing content</li><li>Suggest @code-reviewers as a review source <br /></li></ul><li>Maybe: Send stickers to new contributors who get more than 5 pull requests merged into the Jenkins project?<br /></li></ul></div><div>Such approach costs us almost nothing, but OTOH we could get more contributors and to encourage the existing ones. And I am happy to drive this activity.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>WDYT? If there is no votes against, I will go forward an prepare a blog-post (ETA: Wednesday).<br /></div><div><br /></div>BR, Oleg<br /></div>
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