hacktoberfest

> 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

> 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

> here's the answer: Seems a nice start yes. I've been on vacations, but
> next week I will go trough the current issues and add the
> hacktoberfest label to some issues if you agree.
> 
> I went through the open issues a few moments ago. Some were closed
> (solved or not applicable anymore), and some got an hacktoberfest
> label, hoping new contributors pop up. Feel free to have a look and
> add new issues to the label, as well as remove some of those I thought
> it could be a good fit. There are easy issue, and some not so easy
> (not very hard, but a bit more work) probably.