Hacktoberfest call

[kossnocorp]

TL;DR: date-fns is calling Hacktoberfest participants to help with TypeScript migration. How to contribute.

In light of the recent Hacktoberfest controversy, I decided to support the initiative and try to demonstrate how such a chaotic force could be directed and turned into something positive.

Recently, I announced that date-fns is migrating to TypeScript. Given the size of the codebase and failed attempts to migrate the whole library at once, I opted for gradual migration.

Despite great efforts applied by many date-fns contributors, we still need to migrate 217 functions and locales. And this is exactly the type of work Hacktoberfest participants could help with.

Let's make an open-source community better together showing a great example of Hacktoberfest done right.

How to contribute

1. Head to the list of functions and locales to migrate.
2. Find an unclaimed issue (an issue without ⚠ Claimed label on it) and leave a comment.
3. Fork the repo, migrate the claimed function or locale, and send a pull-request. To prevent stalled work, make sure that you finish the PR in a week, otherwise, the claim will be lifted.
4. Add TypeScript migration label (also add Hacktoberfest if you participate in it).
5. Thank you!

[numToStr]

Is there any functions or locales which is already migrated to typescript? So, we can take that as a guide to implement types for the remaining ones.

[kossnocorp]

Sure, there’re plenty of migrated functions (search index.ts and test.ts), for example https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/blob/master/src/addDays/index.ts

[minitesh]

One of my PR is already pending since so many days.

#1196

Can you please take a look at it so that I can also make some more contributions and its because currently all my changes are in my forked master branch and that is why I need to get to done first.

[kossnocorp]

I appreciate the PR, but I can't promise any ETA on merging it. New features take quite some time to review and see how it fits the big picture, and since I have limited time, I take care of low-hanging fruits first. I hope you understand.

Said that I recommend you create another branch and send PRs from it.

No need to create a bottleneck for both you from it and me.

[minitesh]

Yes @kossnocorp no problem.
I have found another way and I have raised PRs with that.
So no issues.
Thanks

[kossnocorp]

Thank you a lot!