Hacktoberfest 2024: My contributions

Following last year participation I have contributed to Hacktoberfest.

Here are my contributions:

• password: datatypes and functions for easily working with passwords in Haskell
  • Accepted: introduce golden tests
• eselsohr: self-hostable bookmark manager for storing web articles
  • Accepted: fix nix compilation
• nixpkgs: Nix packages collection & NixOS
  • FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND: nixos/minidlna: add package option
  • Pending: nixos/vivid: init module
• hapistrano: Deploy tool for Haskell applications, like Capistrano for Rails
  • Accepted: add --dry-run flag
• servant-static-th: embed static directories in servant
  • Accepted: fix compilation
• servant: strongly-typed web server
  • Accepted: recommend argon2 in JWT cookbook
• nix-tree: nix derivation dependency browser
  • Accepted: add --file flag
• crem: Haskell composable state-machine
  • Accepted: add nothunks instances
  • Pending: fix nix compilation

Which gives:

• Pendings: 2 (- 1)
• Accepted: 7 (+ 2)
• Outdated: 0 (- 1)

My number of contributions has been stable compared to last year, which is remarkable since:

• I didn't anticipated Hacktoberfest unlike previous years (finding some issue, starting local drafts, etc.), thanks for my colleagues for pointing that out
• I was in vacations for the most of October, which means that most of the contributions have been done over a weekend and two nights

Unlike previous years, most of my contributions were not in Haskell (4 in Haskell, 4 in Nix, 1 documentation), it's not that I'm no longer interested in Haskell, it comes from the fact that most of the GitHub Haskell projects with "beginners" issues are not actively maintained.

I also note that it's really hard to get things merged in nixpkgs, which isn't a good idea for Hacktoberfest.