Harness, along with the LitmusChaos community, is welcoming contributors this Hacktoberfest with curated issues, mentorship, and recognition opportunities. Your contributions will directly support the upcoming Litmus 4.0 roadmap while helping grow the chaos engineering ecosystem.
Every October the open-source world comes alive for Hacktoberfest, a month dedicated to contribution, mentorship, and community. This Hacktoberfest, Harness is celebrating alongside the LitmusChaos community: inviting contributors, opening curated issues, hosting office hours, and helping surface work that will feed into the upcoming Litmus 4.0 roadmap. If you’ve ever wanted to get involved in chaos engineering, this is your chance.
What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual month-long celebration of open source where developers of every skill level contribute to public repositories and learn from maintainers and peers. Typical participation mechanics and rewards vary year to year (pull/merge request goals, swag, events), but the heart of Hacktoberfest is hands-on contribution and community support. If you’re new to open source, Hacktoberfest is a welcoming way to start.
What is LitmusChaos?
LitmusChaos is a community-driven, cloud-native chaos engineering platform for SREs and developers to validate resilience hypotheses by safely introducing failures and measuring system behavior. It’s a CNCF-incubated open-source project with an active GitHub, docs, and community channels.
Harness has been investing in chaos engineering and the Litmus ecosystem, bringing Litmus capabilities closer to enterprise customers while keeping community roots intact. Harness welcomed Litmus into the Harness family as part of that journey. Our goal is to help scale the project and amplify community contributions.
Litmus maintainers and contributors have been actively discussing and shaping a major next iteration (4.0) improvements. The community contributions during Hacktoberfest will be intentionally curated so that small fixes, experiments, docs, and tests can be picked up for the 4.0 milestone.
What we’re doing this Hacktoberfest?
- Curated issue lists: a mix of good-first-issues, docs improvements, test flake fixes, and features that map to Litmus 4.0 priorities. Look for labels like hacktoberfest / good-first-issue.
- Office hours & mentoring: weekly open sessions where Litmus maintainers help contributors get unblocked. Join our community to get invite.
- Recognition & community shoutouts: highlighting first-time contributors, helpful reviewers, and notable PRs.
How you can take part?
- Register for Hacktoberfest (if you want the official track and rewards) and read the participation rules.
- Browse Litmus repos (core, chaos-experiments, docs) and filter by hacktoberfest / good-first-issue. Jump on anything labeled for Hacktoberfest.
- Join office hours / community channels to ask maintainers for pairing help.
- Open your PR early and link it to the relevant issue; maintainers will help iterate, small PRs that are well described and testable are easiest to review and merge.
- Share your work on social channels and tag Harness/LitmusChaos, help grow the community.
Hacktoberfest is the perfect season to give back. For Litmus, the community’s contributions are the lifeblood of the project. For Harness, supporting those contributions means helping build a more resilient cloud-native future. If you’re curious about chaos engineering or Open source, there’s no better month than October to jump in.
Sources & further reading
Hacktoberfest info & how to participate (DigitalOcean).
LitmusChaos official site & docs.
Litmus GitHub (repos, labels, issues).
Litmus community and contributors meeting sneak peek.
