Hacktoberfest: SendGrid Current Status

[mbernier]

Update 11/1/2017

I believe that every sendgrid/docs Hacktoberfest PR has been merged and access to our swag form has been granted to those contributors. If you haven't seen this yet, please go to your PR and follow the link to the comment from SendGridDX.

Thank you for your contributions this month, we are overwhelmed and elated at the response.

• Matt Bernier, Developer Experience Product Manager

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SendGrid DX team current status:

• Wow
• OMG
• THANK YOU

Hacktoberfest 2017 has completely blown us away. We have had over 900 pull requests from over 300 contributors all in the last 30 days. That is more PRs than we normally get in 2 years!
We are actively working to review, comment, and/or merge as many PRs as we possibly can as quickly as we can.

We are currently working on “intaking” all the PRs that have come in, oldest first (we have about 400 remaining to go through). We are making sure that each PR we review is one we have a chance of merging - there have been a couple spammy items that came through. Due to the massive influx of requests so far, @thinkingserious, @mbernier, @Whatthefoxsays, and @ksigler7 have been working nights and weekends all month just to keep up! We’re not even mad, this is amazing!

Hey, that’s great for you - but what about my shirt!

If you have signed the CLA before 11/1, but haven’t had a PR merged yet, do not despair! We know we are behind on even just commenting on every PR to show you that we received it (something we typically do). If you submitted a mergeable (non-spam, actually adds value to the project) PR during October 2017, we will grant access to this page to redeem your shirt, sticker, and hacker pin. Next year, we will be sure to communicate this information sooner. We are sorry for any confusion we have caused. We appreciate those of you who have reached out to find out what’s going on!

What can I do to help move things along?

Have you signed the CLA yet?
We can only merge items from contributors who signed the CLA

Can you help another contributor?
If you can identify potential problems, add suggestions, or even leave a comment with your review of another PR (Looks good to me! Or I approve this change), that would help us review those PRs much faster, making it easier to get to your PR.

Do you even write tests, friend?
If you see a place where we could have a test to validate a piece of functionality, add it in. We know We know! It’s just another PR we have to review and merge. You’re right, it is! However, the more tests we have, the earlier our CI tool can catch issues, saving us a review as well as back and forth time.

[afischer12]

I just joined in the issues for hacktoberfest, but I'll try to continue helping with issues!

[apigirl]

thanks so much @afischer12!

[gelvezz23]

como pongo una etiqueta

[apigirl]

@gelvezz23 - one of the repo admins has to tag stuff. We are going through now and making sure that everything is tagged as hacktoberfest though! comment in your PR if we've missed yours

[gelvezz23]

@ksigler7 soy nuevo en git y no se que hacer la verdad :(

[apigirl]

@gelvezz23 - If you are new to git, you should go to the central Hacktoberfest list, and look for issues tagged with help wanted or good first issue! Those are usually good ones for beginners.

[gelvezz23]

@ksigler7 gracias, muchas gracias por su colaboracion echo"!! get lucky"

[apigirl]

@gelvezz23 you're very welcome!

[thepriefy]

Thx for a hard work on reviewing and merging a lot of PRs. I have a lot of fun during the hacktoberfest and I'll continue contributing to your projects. :)

[mbernier]

@thepriefy You totally kicked ass for us and we are VERY grateful to you and the work you did. I hope that you saw the fact that you were at the top of our leaderboard for most of the month! https://dx.sendgrid.com/hacktoberfest

[apigirl]

@thepriefy - yeah, thanks for everything you did! We really appreciate it!

[NexWeb]

Oh no. Did Sendgrid trick us all into doing a bunch of work for free with the lure of a tshirt? 😄
Which by the way we never received.
Did anyone get one?

[mbernier]

@NexWeb, et. al.

We had so many contributors, that we had to order more shirts, pins, and stickers. The fulfillment house has everything and should be sending them all out. Everyone who provided an email address will be getting a notification from them (look for an email from KotisDesigns). There should be a special message in the email from us as well.

I know it is taking FOREVER, we are embarrassed and sorry about that. We already know how we are going to do things different next year and going forward. We hope that you will get your notification and shirt very soon!!