Articles about GitHub-specific articles

  • Hacktoberfest 2023

    OCTOBER IS AROUND THE CORNER, SO IS HACKTOBERFEST!

    The month of October is coming quickly! So be prepared for Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software.

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  • Hacktoberfest and PrestaShop: how you can participate in this 2022 edition

    October is here: participate in Hacktoberfest, a celebration of open source software!

    October is now here and Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software, has started. We have recently written an article about the event, how you can get involved and all the different rules. You can know more in our Hacktoberfest 2022 article.

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  • Hacktoberfest 2022

    October is coming, so is Hacktoberfest!

    With the month of October coming in a few days, be prepared for Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software. The online event has been happening every October for the last 9 years and is sponsored by the American cloud hosting company DigitalOcean. How can you participate? Very simple: people are encouraged to create at least 4 pull requests for open source projects on GitHub.

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  • Hacktoberfest 2021

    October is here, so is Hacktoberfest!

    Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source software that happens online every October, sponsored by the American cloud hosting company DigitalOcean. People are encouraged to engage and create at least 4 pull requests for open-source projects on GitHub.

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  • Hacktoberfest 2020 is coming

    Bring the lights on open source projects

    Open source has its own tradition when fall starts cooling the atmosphere around, Hacktoberfest! Beer is not flowing like water but code is, and it creates more value than any bunch of slightly tipsy people. ;-)

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  • Help us write product specifications

    Contribute without typing a single code line

    Contribution is not only about code. As an open source project, everyone is encouraged to participate in the construction of PrestaShop: you can translate the software in your native language, suggest a new feature, sign up to the User Club and share your experience with the product teams, become an ambassador… and also write specifications!

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  • How bug reports are handled

    And how we want to improve the quality of the process

    PrestaShop is a successful Open Source project – with more than 300 000 shops worldwide, merchants trust us to help them build their ecommerce shop.

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  • A definition of the 'good first issue' label

    A new way to onboard contributors on the PrestaShop project

    Earlier this year, the PrestaShop product team decided to use new leverage to help new contributors participate in the PrestaShop project on GitHub: the ‘good first issue’ label.

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  • Let's review pull requests!

    Making sure that your code makes it to Core

    Have you submitted code to PrestaShop’s Core codebase or any of its native module through a pull request on GitHub? Then read on!

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  • Set up your Git for contributing

    Tweak your git configuration to work better

    Any open source project comes with its own set of rules to harmonize everybody’s contributions. Usually the guidelines are described in a CONTRIBUTING.md file inside the project root directory.

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