READ ME FIRST! Join Kedro for Hacktoberfest 2023!

[ankatiyar]

If you want to contribute to Kedro for Hacktoberfest, this issue will help get you started!

• Sign up for Hacktoberfest!
• Find the Kedro issue you want to work on tagged with the "Hacktoberfest" label.
• Write a comment on the issue to indicate that you want to tackle it, and then get working! (You won't be able to assign it to yourself but we can do that for you).
• If you need to, ask us for information, clarification or help in the comments of the issue you are working on or give us a shout on our Slack workspace.

Contribute to our code

• Read the Guidelines for contributing developers. This has all the instructions on getting you set up for code contribution to Kedro.
• For some of the tickets, you will need to check out the develop branch instead of main and open PRs against the develop branch! Read the instructions on the issues carefully!
• Make sure all the tests pass on your PR and the documentation is update in line with your changes.

Contribute to our documentation

• Find tickets that are labelled "Hacktoberfest" as well as "Component: Documentation 📄".
• Read the Guidelines for contributing to docs.
• Also read the Kedro documentation style guide.

Contribute to our plugins

• We also maintain some plugins over at our kedro-plugins repository. Find issues labelled "Hacktoberfest" over there as well!

[stichbury]

Tickets open:

• Reduce the data used in the spaceflights tutorial and starters #3109
• Incorrect Pipeline Visualization in Iris Kedro Tutorial  #3108
• Update docs about building plugins to use pyproject.toml instead of setup.py #3053
• Link section for disabling file based logging to Databricks docs #2978
• Parent task: Add more graphics/diagrams/animations to our documentation #2870
• Document usage of Kedro + DVC #2691
• Review diagrams/images in docs and potentially resize to a consistent maximum or use a plugin to make thumbnails #2643
• Improve the error message & docstring of kedro new for custom starters #2618
• Improve reference documentation for the CLI #2604
• Documentation for matplotlib artifacts is in page called visualise_charts_with_plotly.html #2527
• Revise the project template README.md to bring it up to date #2305
• Update docs to revise the dependencies page #2224
• Tutorial data: Sanitise the spaceflights data to remove real countries and replace with fictional locations #2008
• Document how users can use Ray with Kedro  #479
• Update demo_project used for Kedro-Viz demo to use OmegaConfigLoader #3172

[ggermade]

If you want to contribute to Kedro for Hacktoberfest, this issue will help get you started!

• Sign up for Hacktoberfest!
• Find the Kedro issue you want to work on tagged with the "Hacktoberfest" label.
• Assign yourself the issue and get working! Ask us for information, clarification or help in the comments of the issue you are working on or give us a shout on our Slack workspace.

Hello! It says here contributors should assign themselves the issue they want to work on, but shouldn't it say to open a PR when a fix is ready for review, without actually assigning themselves the issue? (Seeing as permissions for self-assignation aren't present)

[stichbury]

Oh, thanks for letting us know @ggermade! While your suggestion makes sense, it would also be a shame if two people chose the same issue to work on and didn't find out until one made a PR that they were working to solve the same thing.

Maybe it makes sense to write a comment on whichever issue you choose to say you've picked it up (and I'll look into whether we can change permissions so self-assignation is possible). I'll amend the issue to say that. Thanks again!

[astrojuanlu]

Although, let's watch out for "cookie licking" 🍪 https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/dont-lick-cookie (also known as "territoriality" http://web.archive.org/web/20160318173433/https://producingoss.com/en/managing-volunteers.html#ftn.idp9801616)

[stichbury]

Indeed, who wants a soggy 🍪 ?

We'll see the comments come in and I think we can then assign the issues, so can ensure only 1 assigned per person at a time and maybe create some calendar reminders to check in after a week and see how it's going?

[shreyadatar]

Hi @stichbury! I'd love to contribute to Kedro for Hacktoberfest. However, I am finding it hard to figure out which issues are assigned and which aren't. Should I go off of the comments on the issue to confirm that? Or should we expect to see assignments for issues? Thanks, and happy hacking!

[stichbury]

@shreyadatar Good point, is hard to see. I've just added some names to those tickets where people have volunteered (or have PRs in flight) and marked them as "In progress". So I'd look more at tickets that are unassigned and check the comments. Once you've an idea of which one you want to tackle, pls let me know as a comment, and I can assign it to you. If nothing appeals but you'd still like to help, let me know and I'll see if I can find something else, particularly if you're interested in docs work 😄

[merelcht]

Closing as Hacktoberfest 2023 has finished.