Hacktoberfest Week 1 PR
Tags: opensource, hacktoberfest, hacktoberfest23, hack23contributor
Published: 2023-10-13 07:53:21

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series: Hacktoberfest 2023
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I am very excited to be participating in my first Hacktoberfest!

I am a bit late to the party, but for my first Pull Request, I wanted to find something simple to get used to the process and to make sure my PR gets accepted.

Here are some methods I used to look for my first issue, if you find it helpful do use them as well!

- Looked through [GitHub Issues with labels "Hacktoberfest" and "good first issue", and 0 comments](https://github.com/search?q=comments%3A0+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22+label%3A%22Hacktoberfest%22&type=issues&ref=advsearch)
- Looked through [Hacktoberfest labelled repos](https://github.com/search?q=label%3A%22Hacktoberfest%22&type=issues&ref=advsearch) with simple installation instructions and easy to understand instructions. Cloned the apps on my local and tested them to check for bugs or enhancements.
- Looked through the Hacktoberfest Discord #project-sharing channel where people share their projects and clicked on ones I found interesting, and either checked the Issues list or tested the app myself.

**TIP!** When you find an issue you would like to work on, leave a comment immediately to ask the owner to assign you the issue. Then, if the issue is a simple one, do the fix and submit a PR linking it to the issue as soon as possible. I discovered that many times that although I commented first, that others would go ahead and submit PRs for that issue anyways.

After some exploration, I found the following issue which I believe to be a suitable first PR

{% embed https://github.com/mohiwalla/dtquick/issues/3 %}

The issue is a very straightforward README file fix. The owner has renamed four files, and thus the links to those four files under the "Server-Side File" section of the [README](https://github.com/mohiwalla/dtquick/blob/mohiwalla/README.md) stopped working. I did not have to do much setup to do this fix.

I commented under the [issue](https://github.com/mohiwalla/dtquick/issues/3) that I would like to work on the issue. I [forked](https://github.com/kliu57/dtquick) the repo and then cloned the forked repo to my local. I created a [branch](https://github.com/kliu57/dtquick/tree/issue-3) and called it issue-3. I located the files inside the Samples folder and I updated the file names for those four files in the README.md. I then pushed my changes to my branch, and then manually went to my branch on GitHub to test that all four links now work. Lastly, I created a [Pull Request](https://github.com/mohiwalla/dtquick/pull/5), detailed my fix and my testing, and linked it to the [issue](https://github.com/mohiwalla/dtquick/issues/3).

I am very happy to have completed my first Pull Request, and I look forward to getting a review from the owner. I have already communicated with the owners of other repos and have gotten assigned to a couple of more difficult tasks, and I look forward to working on them in the coming days and weeks!

UPDATE: Unfortunately, even though I asked to be assigned to this issue first, someone submitted a PR a couple minutes before me, and so my PR was not merged.