HacktoberFest 2018: Appraisal

After the last year success, Apache JAMES team @ Linagora decided to join the 2018 HacktoberFest again.

This year, we recycled some of last year issues, we added a few new ones, and we invited contributors to work on an awesome feature: health checks.

We had a simple HealthCheck endpoint but we needed health checks for each of our components, and improve the corresponding REST endpoints. That is a first time a feature is handled by contributors, in a that short amount of time. I am sure the admins around are going to love it!

So far, we received 13 pull requests solving almost all issues we opened for the challenge. We would like to thanks all contributors for their involvement and professionalism.

Especially, many thanks to sebast26, Jeroen Reijn, matzepan, Athulya Raj, Madhu Bhat and mschnitzler. This was a pleasure working with you! If you also enjoyed the experience, we would love continuing seeing you around, even out of the HacktoberFest event!

If you are interested into contributing to the James project, you can start with documentation improvements, easy issues, bugfixes, or challenging features!