Rules

To earn your Tripal Hacktoberfest swag, here’s what you need to do:

• Make four valid pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone) to one of two repositories: Tripal core or t4d8, the temporary home for Tripal 4 development.
• Your pull requests should follow the Tripal guidelines for contributing and developers handbook. Among other requirements, PRs must link to a related issue page (you can create the issue!) and follow Drupal coding standards. 
• Even if your PR has not yet been accepted and merged at the end of the month, it can still count toward your total.
• We are strongly encouraging “quality” PRs! What does that mean? We’re going to follow the GitHub Hacktoberfest definitions of quality. If unsure of whether your PRs are helping and if you are doing them correctly, don’t hesitate to ask on Slack in the dedicated #codefest channel.  
• An optional official “Tripal Hacktoberfest” event will correspond with the T4 developers call on October 13th, 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 3pm GMT (find your time zone here). It is not necessary to participate in this specific online event to participate in the Hackathon, but would be a great way to get ideas on what to work on, what others are working on, and get help with issues.
• At the end of the month, to get your swag and let the community know about your awesome progress, fill out this form.  If you do more than 4 PRs, don’t be afraid to show off! 

Need ideas?

Tripal version 4 (T4)

We’re strongly encouraging Tripal 4 participation for our current focus issues. Good starter PRs include API functions to ensure the T4 API is backward compatible with T3 - these teach you the new way to do things as well as help you become familiar with the API in general! Also, tests are always appreciated. 

If you want to be involved but do not know where best to start, just send a message on the #codefest channel on slack and/or attend the official event on October 13th (see above). 

Documentation focused PRs are highly encouraged! If there is something that you wish was included in the docs, you can write up the answers for PRs.

Tripal version 3 (T3)

Not quite ready for T4 or have some issues you want to tackle in T3? Awesome! If you need ideas, the tag “Please Contribute” in the issue queue indicates we’d love help. If you are just getting started, look for the tag “Good first issue”.

Organizers

Event:

Meg Staton 

Abdullah Almsaeed

Noah Caldwell 

Sean Buehler 

PMC:

Lacey Anne Sanderson 

Stephen Ficklin 

Bradford Condon