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title: Hacktoberfest 2019
date: 2019-11-01
image: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/assets/HF19_social-744d976f227e4aff6866443abcede8c651b309ec9c7c9f7410f5944f8e1299b9.png
tags: [programming]
---

This is year number three of my participation in [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/), the initiative from DigitalOcean, and new this year, [Dev.to](https://dev.to/). In previous years, the objective was to submit five pull requests to an open-source project. This year, the number was reduced to four, for some reason.

In [2018]({{< relref "hacktoberfest-2018" >}}), I submitted a total of 10 pull requests to open-source projects. This year, I did a few more than that.

## My contributions

Whilst DigitalOcean did have an official checker this year, it was pretty bad! Not only was it incredibly slow, but it was only possible to see _your_ pull requests, rather than any user. Instead, the third-party [Hacktoberfest Checker](https://hacktoberfestchecker.jenko.me/user/RealOrangeOne) shows the relevant pull requests.

### 3 Contributions to `srobo/team-emails`

- [Add email confirming kickstart details](https://github.com/srobo/team-emails/pull/29)
- [Add email sending out kit disclaimer form early](https://github.com/srobo/team-emails/pull/30)
- [Add an email asking for an address confirmation](https://github.com/srobo/team-emails/pull/31)

### 2 Contributions to `srobo/docs`

- [Correct favicon](https://github.com/srobo/docs/pull/112)
- [Deploy the rules for SR2020](https://github.com/srobo/docs/pull/114)

### 2 Contributions to `srobo/website`

- [Change link to say 'All events'](https://github.com/srobo/website/pull/175)
- [Add more specific details for Southampton campus](https://github.com/srobo/website/pull/176)

### 2 Contributions to `RealOrangeOne/zoloto`

- [Test against Python 3.8 in Travis](https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/zoloto/pull/81)
- [Try running multi-arch tests on CI](https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/zoloto/pull/82)

### 2 Contributions to `srobo/reverse-proxy`

- [The cluster is actually on DO](https://github.com/srobo/reverse-proxy/pull/4)
- [Intercept error pages and serve custom content](https://github.com/srobo/reverse-proxy/pull/8)

### 1 Contributions to `polybar/polybar-scripts`

- [Correctly parse multiple artist metadata](https://github.com/polybar/polybar-scripts/pull/193)

### 1 Contributions to `polybar/polybar`

- [Warning style on temperature should be inclusive](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/pull/1897)


### 1 Contributions to `kees-z/DuplicatiDocs`

- [Fix typo in credentials constraints](https://github.com/kees-z/DuplicatiDocs/pull/48)

### 1 Contributions to `srobo/inventory`

- [Use GitHub Actions to validate inventory](https://github.com/srobo/inventory/pull/10)

### 1 Contributions to `aaronn/django-rest-framework-passwordless`

- [Generate tokens in a cryptographically secure way](https://github.com/aaronn/django-rest-framework-passwordless/pull/34)

### 1 Contributions to `dabapps/heroku-buildpack-cleanup`

- [Initial implementation](https://github.com/dabapps/heroku-buildpack-cleanup/pull/1)

## Overview

As with last year, I personally consider many of these contributions invalid, primarily because they don't really fit with the spirit of Hacktoberfest. Namely, all those under the `srobo` organization don't especially fit, and the ones on my own repos. Excluding those, there's still more than enough to get my t-shirt!