Docker Docs Hackathon: Results for Austin, April 17-21, 2017

Docs Hackathon: Winners

Well, it’s over. We had an amazing hackathon on the documentation last week, with over 140 bugs closed and counting. We couldn’t be more thankful for your participation! If you participated, make sure you fill out your report so you can get your rewards.

We are so humbled and lucky to have a community like you working with us. From the bottom of our hearts: thank you!

Let’s dive into the results. First up, the point bonus winners:

Bonuses

There were three bonus categories. You can see the point values from these bonuses reflected in the participant report.

Largest change in a single fix

This award goes to @allejo, for the site-shifting change in pull request #2860. A revamp of many aspects of the site’s responsive behavior that affected our CSS, JS, and include/header structure, you can thank @allejo for the site operating so well in various resolutions now, and keeping the menus working regardless of viewport size and footer position.

Most bugs closed

This award goes to @shubheksha who helped closed a stunning 31 bugs during our hackathon. For details of all of @shubheksha’s contributions, see the raw results. Excellent work!

Most participation (active every day)

This is tough because we actually had several people who spent time on the hackathon every single day it was active. So we’re going to split this award four ways:

• @johnharris85
• @shubheksha
• @scjane
• @bdwill

We saw you all, in person, in Slack, or on GitHub, and worked with you the whole hackathon. 250 points to each of you, and our sincere thanks.

Overall winners

And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The top three of the Docs Hackathon!

3rd place: @johnharris85

Congratulations to @johnharris85, our second runner-up! For your efforts you get:

• $157.50 in the hackathon swag store
• A trophy with a personal engraving

2nd place: @allejo

Congratulations to @allejo, our runner-up! For your efforts, you get:

• $180 in the hackathon swag store
• A $150 Amazon Gift card
• A trophy with a personal engraving

1st place: @shubeksha

Last but not least, a round of applause for our first-place winner!

Congratulations to @shubeksha! With an amazing 31 bugs closed, Docker thanks you from the bottom of our hearts. For your efforts you get:

• $275 in the hackathon swag store
• A $300 Amazon gift card
• A large trophy with a personal engraving

Amazing work, @shubeksha, and once again, many thanks to our participants. We’re already planning the next one, so get ready!

Hackathon impact and results

Stats

Just a few bits of trivia.

• Total points awarded: 16750
• Total issues closed: 158
• Total participants (not counting Docker employees): 35
• Average points per issue: 106.01
• Average points per participant: 478.57
• Average participation time: 52.2 minutes (based on our estimate that 100 points = 1 hour of work)

Visuals

Bug count graph

In this graph you can see the pile-up of bugs we were experiencing in the docs, and the dramatic flurry of activity that closed many of these bugs during the hackathon. This is actually a graph of the labels attached to bugs; interact with these results here.

Courtesy of Bug Life

Bug burndown graph

In this graph you see the ideal line for reaching zero bugs during the hackathon. Unfortunately it took us a bit longer to reach zero while we graded and closed lingering PRs. But we did indeed get there!

Courtesy of waffle.io

Raw results

You can audit our work on GitHub, or with these handy tables.

By participant

By GitHub issue

Original Hackathon details

During DockerCon 2017, Docker’s docs team will be running our first-ever hackathon, and you’re invited to participate and win prizes -- whether you attend DockerCon or are just watching the proceedings online.

Essentially, it’s a bug-bash! We have a number of bugs filed against our docs up on GitHub for you to grab.

You can participate in one of two ways:

• With the docs team’s help in the fourth floor hack room at DockerCon on Tuesday, April 18th and Wednesday, April 19th, from 1-6pm.
• Online! Right here! During the whole week of DockerCon (April 17th - 21st).

Or, both -- if you want to have the best shot. After all, we won’t be in the hack room 24/7 that whole week.

All participants who show up in the 4th floor hack room at DockerCon will get this way-cool magnet just for stopping by.

Quick links

• Event page on DockerCon website
• View hackathon bugs on GitHub
• Report your hackathon work
• Browse prizes
• #docs on Slack, if you have questions
• Moby Mingle offer to mentor people to contribute to the Hackathon.

How it works

We have a number of bugs that have built up in our docs queue on GitHub, and we have labeled a whole slew of them with the tag hackathon, which you can see here.

Submit fixes for these bugs, or close them if you do a bit of research it turns out they aren’t actually valid. Every action you take gets you more points, and the points are redeemable for dollars in our hackathon store. These points also qualify you for valuable prizes like an Amazon gift card and a personally engraved trophy!

Prizes

• All participants: Points are redeemable for t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, mugs, beer steins, pint glasses, flasks, hoodies, stickers, buttons, magnets, wall clocks, post-cards, and even doggie t-shirts.
• 3rd place: A small trophy with a personal engraving, plus store credit
• 2nd place: A small trophy with a personal engraving, plus store credit, plus a $150 Amazon Gift Card
• 1st place: A large trophy with a personal engraving, plus store credit, plus a $300 Amazon Gift Card

Bonuses

A select few will get bonuses for being extra special contributors:

• Largest single change introduced in a fix (files changed/lines of delta): 1000 points
• Most bugs closed (resolved as no-op or handled): 1000 points
• Most participation (attended all days): 1000 points

Choosing a prize

You can see the point values for the bugs in the GitHub queue. Those are worth cash in our rewards store at http://www.cafepress.com/dockerdocshackathon.

Our points-to-cash conversion rate will be figured out at the end of the hackathon, and will essentially be a function of the number of points that hackathon participants logged, and the number of dollars we need to spend on prizes.

View our available prizes

When?

The docs hackathon is going on from April 17th thru April 21st, 2017. This is the time when it’s possible to claim and resolve bugs.

Note: Okay, technically, we won’t be tallying until the following Monday, April 24th. Just be sure you’ve submitted your claim form by then. If we don’t see your work on Monday morning, it won’t be counted.

Where?

In-person

Attending DockerCon? Come to the fourth floor hack room on Tuesday and Wednesday from 1pm to 6pm. We’ll be there to answer questions and help you.

Note: While the hackathon is officially ongoing all week online, working in the hack room with us for these two days is by far the best way to participate; the docs team will be on-hand to get you started, get you unstuck, and guide you.

Online

Drop into the community Slack channel for the docs and ask any questions you have. Otherwise, just go to GitHub and look at our hackathon label and come here to claim your points when you’re done.

Claiming a bug

Whether attending in-person or online, to claim a bug as one that you are working on (so nobody else grabs it out from under you) you must type a comment saying you claim it. Respect it when you see other comments claiming a bug.

View available bugs

Claiming your points

Simply fill out this form when you’re done participating. We’ll take it from there.

Conversion rate

Every 10 points is worth $1 USD in the swag store

You’ll see point values for each of the bugs, such as points/100 and points/250. Opening an accepted PR that fixes these bugs by the end of the hackathon earns you that number of points.

So if you fix a 100-point bug, that’s $10 you need to spend in the swag store.

Questions?

Ask us anything at docs@docker.com or in the #docs channel on Slack.

Thank you for participating in the 2017 Docs Hackathon!

Legal

Eligibility: Participants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the date of your pull request.

To participate in the Docs Hackathon you must submit a pull request that handles a GitHub issue in the docker/docker.github.io repo that has the label “hackathon” sometime between April 17th thru 22nd.

Multiple entries per person allowed and encouraged.

Participation in the Docs Hackathon and submission of content therein gives Docker rights to use submitted content, including text, code, and images, for potential future promotional marketing activities.

For the purposes of copyright all content submitted to Docker for the Docs Hackathon belongs to Docker.

Winners will be announced the week of April 22nd on https://docs.docker.com/hackathon. The winners will be named by GitHub username and contacted via email.