- Pull requests can be made in any participating GitHub or GitLab hosted repository/projects.
- Look for the hacktoberfest topic to know if a project is participating in Hacktoberfest.
- You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
- Just be sure to sign up on the official Hacktoberfest website for your pull requests to count.
- The pull request must contain commits you made yourself.
- If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam, it will not be counted toward your participation in Hacktoberfest.
- If a maintainer reports behavior that’s not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.
- A pull request is considered approved once it has an overall approving review from maintainers, or has been merged by maintainers, or has been given the hacktoberfest-accepted label.