The official rulebook for Winter of Code, 2026
Complete the registration at Anokha 2026 and ensure you have a personal GitHub account.
Link your GitHub account to the WoC portal. It will be used to track your progress and give out rewards.
As participants, you can submit issues and bug-reports. Please do follow the guidelines setup by maintainers of the project.
Write clean and concise commit messages. Additionally, write detailed descriptions and titles in your pull requests.
You are free to choose which issues to work upon. The official-bot of AMSoC will assign the issue to you upon commenting `/assign` in the comments of the issue.
As there can be multiple participants working on an issue at the same time, speed and quality of solution are of essence.
The use of AI tools is permitted but complete reliance on AI-generated code that does not follow the conventions of the repository will lead to rejections.
Avoid using copyrighted code. Please be honest with yourself. If detected, this is punishable through penalties.
The final decision on rewarding a participant rests with the maintainers ONLY.
Maintainers will label issues with `AMSOC-ACCEPTED` tag to indicate their eligibility for the program. New issues introduced by the participants in the form of bugs (or) feature requests; can be worked upon only after approval from maintainers.
Read the `CONTRIBUTION.md` file present in each project carefully before contributing to the project.
In order to curb spamming, we have introduced penalties. A maintainer is free to reward a penalty to a contributor in cases of spamming and misdemeanour which will lead to reduction of total bounty.