Joining in

The Hackathon is a virtual event open to anyone who is interested in contributing code, documentation, translations, UX designs and more to GitLab. Prizes are awarded to participants for having Merge Requests (MRs) merged and there may also be special award categories at each Hackathon.

To get started:

  1. Block the dates on your calendar!
  2. Check out the Contribute page.
  3. Pick an existing issue to work on, or file a new one. If it's your first time contributing, a good way to join the Hackathon is to pick and fix a bite size issue.
  4. Join the tutorial sessions
  5. Share the MRs you are working on, get help or help others. Join the party at the contributors channel.

Hackathon Prizes

Q2 2019 hackathon prizes

We are excited to offer three categories of prizes for this Hackathon:

  1. Merged MR: everyone with an MR merged
  2. Grand Prize: the individual with the most MRs merged
  3. Second Place: the individual with the second most merged MRs.

All qualifying MRs must be merged by June 10 23:00 UTC.

Tutorial sessions

There will be tutorial sessions during the Hackathon. We will be adding more sessions as speakers are confirmed.

Date Time in UTC
(click for local time) 		Session Conference link Speakers
May 29 06:00 - 06:30 Hackathon Kickoff Join in Ray Paik (@rpaik), Dave Planella (@dplanella)
May 29 16:00 - 16:30 Contributing to GitLab Join in Ray Paik (@rpaik)
May 29 16:30 - 17:00 GitLab Release Stage Join in Jason Lenny (@jlenny)
May 29 17:00 - 17:30 GitLab Monitor/Distribution Join in Joshua Lambert (@joshlambert)
May 30 22:00 - 22:30 Hackathon wrap-up Join in Ray Paik (@rpaik)

If you miss any of the sessions, you will find the recordings in the Hackathon Playlist.

Getting help

For communications during the Hackathon, we will use the GitLab Contributors room in Gitter. This is a channel for community-related discussions and for community members to help each other as people have questions when contributing to GitLab.

It's open to everyone, so please join us at the Contributors Gitter room!

Past events

To learn more about previous Hackathon events, visit the past GitLab Hackathons page.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Which GitLab projects qualify for the Hackathon?

    While we generally encourage contribution to the GitLab CE and the GitLab EE projects, MRs for any project under the gitlab-org group, Charts, Meltano, and www-gitlab-com qualify for the Hackathon. If you are in doubt about a project which is not on this list, please do ask us on the Contributors Gitter channel.

  1. What are the key dates for the current Hackathon?