24 Pull Requests

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One pull request a day through December, given back to the projects you use.

FreeNo applicationOne monthAny repositoryMaintainer-first

About the program

24 Pull Requests asks for one thing through December: give back one pull request a day to the open-source projects you already use. There is no application round, no mentor matching and no shortlist - the calendar is the whole programme, and it reopens every year on 1 December.

Maintainers take part the other way round. They post to the project expo listing the work they would actually like to see done, so the December traffic lands on tasks someone volunteered to review instead of arriving cold. That single habit is why the drive works at all: the pull requests go to repositories whose owners asked for them.

Nothing is paid. The reward the organizers describe is the gift itself, which makes it the cheapest serious contribution streak available - and the one most likely to be read by a maintainer in January, when the tree is quiet.

Primary stack

Any GitHub language

Technical focus

DocumentationIssue triageBug fixesTest coverage

The path

01
December 1 - pick a project
Open the expo on 24pullrequests.com and choose from what maintainers listed, or work on the repository you already depend on.
02
One pull request a day
There is no size rule. A docs fix, a repro report or a small test counts the same as a feature on any of the 24 days.
03
Keep the streak visible
Your December activity is public record on GitHub; the site tracks your contributions against the calendar.
04
December 24 - hand it over
Merge or leave the work open for review. Nothing is graded, and no certificate gates the next cycle.

Who it's for

First-time contributors who want a low-stakes reason to open their first pull request
Developers rebuilding a contribution history after a quiet year
Maintainers who want December backlog work to arrive through an explicit ask rather than cold outreach

What you walk away with

A public month of merged and opened pull requests across real projects
Direct contact with maintainers whose software you already run
A habit-forming month that reads well in a later GSoC, LFX or Outreachy proposal
No cost, no application deadline and no risk of being rejected