Want to contribute to this repository? Please read below first:
If you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can help us by submitting an issue to this repo. Even better you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.
Please see the Submission Guidelines below.
You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to this repo. Proposed features (with suitable design documentation and reasoning) can be crafted and submitted to this repo as a Pull Request.
Please see the Submission Guidelines below.
If you want to help improve the docs, it's a good idea to let others know what you're working on to minimize duplication of effort. Comment on an issue to let others know what you're working on, or create a new issue if your work doesn't fit within the scope of any of the existing doc fix projects.
Please see the Submission Guidelines below.
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Fork the project by navigating to the main repository and clicking the Fork button on the top-right corner.
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Navigate to your forked repository and copy the SSH url. Clone your fork by running the following in your terminal:
$ git clone [email protected]:{ YOUR_USERNAME }/design-language-website.git $ cd design-language-website
See GitHub docs for more details on forking a repository.
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Once cloned, you will see
origin
as your default remote, pointing to your personal forked repository. Add a remote namedupstream
pointing to the maindesign-language-website
:$ git remote add upstream [email protected]:carbon-design-system/design-language-website.git $ git remote -v
Your terminal should output something like this:
origin [your forked repo] (fetch) origin [your forked repo] (push) upstream [email protected]/carbon-design-system/design-language-website.git (fetch) upstream [email protected]/carbon-design-system/design-language-website.git (push)
Before you submit your issue, search the repository. Maybe your question was already answered.
If your issue appears to be a bug, and hasn't been reported, open a new issue. Help us to maximize the effort we can spend fixing issues and adding new features, by not reporting duplicate issues.
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Search this repository for an open or closed Pull Request that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.
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Pull the latest master branch from
upstream
:$ git pull upstream master
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Always work and submit pull requests from a branch. Do not submit pull requests from the
master
branch of your fork.$ git checkout -b { YOUR_BRANCH_NAME } master
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Create your patch or feature following our development guidelines. Make sure to also follow our coding standards.
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Test your branch and add new test cases where appropriate per the testing guidelines.
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Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message.
$ git commit -a -m "chore: Update header with newest designs, resolves #123"
Note: the optional commit -a command line option will automatically "add" and "rm" edited files. See Close a commit via commit message and writing good commit messages for more details on commit messages.
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Once ready for feedback from other contributors and maintainers, push your commits to your fork (be sure to run
yarn ci-check
before pushing, to make sure your code passes linting and unit tests):$ git push origin { YOUR_BRANCH_NAME }
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In GitHub, navigate to carbon-design-system/design-language-website and click the button that reads "Compare & pull request".
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Write a title and description, the click "Create pull request".
See how to write the perfect pull request for more details on writing good PRs.
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Stay up to date with the activity in your pull request. Maintainers will be reviewing your work and making comments, asking questions and suggesting changes to be made before they merge your code. When you need to make a change, add, commit and push to your branch normally.
Once all revisions to your pull request are complete, a maintainer will squash and merge your commits for you.
That's it! Thank you for your contribution!