[Hacktoberfest] Tricking or treating for a Good First Issue Challenge 🍫

[queenofcorgis]

Alt text: A dark purple Halloween-themed illustration with cream text at the top reading “Hacktoberfest Challenge One.” Below, a friendly ghost holding a small Octocat silhouette stands beside a large carved jack-o’-lantern pumpkin. A black bat flies in the background among small star-like specks, creating a festive, spooky atmosphere.

There are plenty of scary things in October (vampires 🧛, witches 🧙, and ghosts 👻 to name a few), but finding your first issue to contribute to in open source shouldn’t be one of them.

We want your first issue to be as sweet as candy 🍬, so we’re challenging you to put on your detective’s costume to sleuth for issues that are great for beginners!

Challenge 🔨

Find an issue in an open source repository that you think is a great starter issue and link it in the comments of this discussion, calling out any specific attributes as to what makes it so appealing for a newbie and appealing to you

Tips ✨

• Check out projects you’re already interested in or may be using like Wikipedia, if there isn’t a project, you can also browse by topics at github.com/topics.
• Search label:”good first issue” on GitHub and add any additional search parameters
• Orient yourself to a project, by understanding a project’s structure and norms, you’re most likely to have your issue noticed! Read more on project orientation.
• Want more tips? Visit our Trick-or-tip Tuesday discussion!

Inspiration ⚡

• Meet the Maintainers: @Roshanjossey, First Contributions: Learn about this maintainer’s start in open source and about their project which helps you make your first contribution!

We can’t wait to see what treats you find, happy trick or treating 🎃!

[queenofcorgis]

Week two's challenge is here, test your documentation writing expertise in this discussion!