<commit_before>---
title: "GitLab Issue Bash - March 2017"
author: <NAME>
author_gitlab: marcia
author_twitter: XMDRamos
categories: GitLab
image_title: '/images/blogimages/gitlab-issue-bash-march-2017-cover.png'
description: "We're on a mission to blitz GitLab's open issues and we need your help!"
---

There are currently over 6000 open issues on GitLab CE,
and we need your help to sort them out! We have over 1500
[GitLab contributors](http://contributors.gitlab.com/contributors/), and we want everyone to be able to
find issues to work on.

Of course, the best contributors will be prized with XXXX,
and we'll promise to give some awesome swag away! 🙌

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Our last Issue Bash helped us to close over 100 issues and lots of improvements to the categorization of existing issues were made.
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## When Is It Going to Happen?

We'll kick it off at 00:01 UTC on Saturday, **March 4th**
and will keep it up until 23:59 UTC on Sunday, **March 5th**.

## Who Can Contribute?

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<i class="fa fa-gitlab" style="color:rgb(107,79,187); font-size:.85em" aria-hidden="true"></i>
&nbsp;&nbsp;
**At GitLab, everyone can contribute!**
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<i class="fa fa-gitlab" style="color:rgb(107,79,187); font-size:.85em" aria-hidden="true"></i>
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This is your chance to get involved! Most of the tasks don't require
technical expertize, therefore, non-technical community
members are definitely welcome and prize-worthy!

## How to Get Involved?

There are mainly four things we need from our task force:

- Track issues that can be easily closed
- Categorize issues
- Fix known bugs and pain points
- Shipping existing feature proposals

Check out the [Issue Bash Proposal](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27272) to find out how to get started.

To be considered for a prize you need at least one contribution
accepted by the time GitLab x.xx releases on XXXX 22nd.
Prizes will be drawn at random.

## Questions? More info?

GitLab team members [@markglenfletcher](https://gitlab.com/markglenfletcher), [@ClemMakesApps](https://gitlab.com/ClemMakesApps), and [@haynes](https://gitlab.com/haynes) will be on hand to answer questions and close issues.
	<commit_msg>add prizes<commit_after>---
title: "GitLab Issue Bash - March 2017"
author: <NAME>
author_gitlab: marcia
author_twitter: XMDRamos
categories: GitLab
image_title: '/images/blogimages/gitlab-issue-bash-march-2017-cover.png'
description: "We're on a mission to blitz GitLab's open issues and we need your help!"
---

There are currently over 6000 open issues on GitLab CE,
and we need your help to sort them out! We have over 1500
[GitLab contributors](http://contributors.gitlab.com/contributors/),
and we want everyone to be able to find issues to work on.

Of course, the best contributors will be prized with awesome swag! 🙌

<!-- more -->

Our last Issue Bash helped us to close over 100 issues and lots of
improvements to the categorization of existing issues were made.
{:.alert .alert-info .text-center}

## When Is It Going to Happen?

We'll kick it off at 00:01 UTC on Saturday, **March 4th**
and will keep it up until 23:59 UTC on Sunday, **March 5th**.

## Who Can Contribute?

{::options parse_block_html="true" /}

<i class="fa fa-gitlab" style="color:rgb(107,79,187); font-size:.85em" aria-hidden="true"></i>
&nbsp;&nbsp;
**At GitLab, everyone can contribute!**
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<i class="fa fa-gitlab" style="color:rgb(107,79,187); font-size:.85em" aria-hidden="true"></i>
{: .alert .alert-webcast}

This is your chance to get involved! Most of the tasks don't require
technical expertize, therefore, non-technical community
members are definitely welcome and prize-worthy!

## How to Get Involved?

There are mainly four things we need from our task force:

- Track issues that can be easily closed
- Categorize issues
- Fix known bugs and pain points
- Shipping existing feature proposals

Check out the [Issue Bash Proposal](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27272) to find out how to get started.

## Prizes

We have some awesome swag ready for you: 

- Five T-shirts
- Four pajama pants
- Three moleskin notebooks
- Two [pocket chips](https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip)
- One messenger bag (filled with all the stuff just listed)!

If we get twice as much issues solved than
the last Issue Bash (>= 200), we'll give away a **mystery prize** as well! 🎉

Users making any contributions to the project that fall into the above categories,
between the start and end times of the event, will be entered into the random draw
to win a prize. The contributions will be collated after the end of the event and
prize winners, drawn at random, will be contacted in the weeks that follow.



## Questions? More info?

GitLab team members [@markglenfletcher](https://gitlab.com/markglenfletcher), [@ClemMakesApps](https://gitlab.com/ClemMakesApps), and [@haynes](https://gitlab.com/haynes) will be on hand to answer questions and close issues.
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