Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

lint: specify that `authors` and `contributors` are valid GitHub usernames

Open
  • Is something wrong?
#463 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue gives no file, test, or entry point; start by locating the documentation or lint guidance for the authors and contributors fields. Done means that guidance explicitly says these values are valid GitHub usernames and addresses the linked forum concern.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Follow up from http://forum.exercism.org/t/contributing-wrong-author-name-in-config-json/7099/9

Dominant language
No language data
Stars
52
Forks
98
Avg merge
9m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from exercism/docs

All issues in exercism/docs

Similar issues

More Documentation issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.