I've reorganized the guide and rewritten large sections.
The structure is now more clear and logical, and can
be understood and navigated using the summary displayed at
the top of the page (before, the summary was confusing because
the guide contained H1s that were being ignored by the summary).
Both the initial onboarding process and the Gerrit
change submission process have been reworked to
include a concise checklist of steps that can be
read and understood in a few seconds, for people
that don't want or need to bother with details.
More in-depth descriptions have been moved into
separate sections, one per each checklist step.
This is by far the biggest improvement, as the previous
approach of having to read several pages just to understand
the requires steps was very scaring for beginners, in
addition of being harder to navigate.
GitHub pull requests have been integrated as a different
way to submit a change, suggested for first time contributors.
The review process has been described in more details,
documenting the workflow and the used conventions.
Most miscellanea have been moved into an "advanced
topics" chapter.
Paragraphs describing how to use git have been removed
to simplify reading. This guide should focus on Go contribution,
and not help users getting familiar with git, for which many
guides are available.
Change-Id: I6f4b76583c9878b230ba1d0225745a1708fad2e8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/93495
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
The note about the single change workflow is included in the
git-codereview installation instructions, but it has nothing to do with
installing git-codereview. This note is more relevant for when a change
is actually being made.
Change-Id: Iccb90f3b7da87fab863fa4808438cd69a21a2fce
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/76317
Reviewed-by: Steve Francia <spf@golang.org>
If people are interested in contributing to Go, but not sure what
change they'd like to make just yet, we can point them to the scratch
repo, so they can go through the process of submitting and merging
something now, and make more useful contributions later.
My evidence that sending people to the scratch repo would encourage
future contributions is that a number of people who went through the
workshop at Gophercon have continued to send CL's after submitting to
the scratch repo, even though I doubt they planned to before going
through the workshop.
Change-Id: Ieb48415773c0ee7dc400f8bf6f57f752eca8eeb5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/49970
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Update golang/go#22120
Change-Id: Ie7dbd0e7b01b116c960243a8cd3fa9fd121f317d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/68021
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
Neither the Gerrit UI nor its docs use the term CL or changelist.
Change-Id: Ic19fddc660ec4f008f10fd207e4ac6349431ff5d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/48595
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
There's no Settings->Agreement path for PolyGerrit users, but if we
link directly to the page in the instructions, Gerrit will inform them
that they can access the page by switching to the old UI.
Fixes#20207
Change-Id: I0887ee854e4ac5975b5f305adb6259b81b41618f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/42412
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Updates #17802
Change-Id: I65ea0f4cde973604c04051e7eb25d12e4facecd3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/36626
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Broadfoot <cbro@golang.org>
CL (change list) pops out of nowhere and confuses the
reader. Use "change" instead to be consistent with the
rest of the document.
Fixes#18989.
Change-Id: I525a63a195dc6bb992c8ad0f10c2f2e1b2b952df
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/36564
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Change-Id: Iac713ae1f322f893c92b3fc47fe9b5719052f9eb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/35240
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Fixes#13651.
Change-Id: I1d21b49e2b5bc6c507eb084d6d2553e5a9c607cf
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/19552
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Broadfoot <cbro@golang.org>
I walked through the steps for a contribution but ended up
with an error when doing "git mail" because I didn't have a
signed agreement.
Added a section to check for or create one through Gerrit right
after the user has created the account and logged in.
Moved some info from copyright section to the new section.
Change-Id: I79bbd3e18fc3a742fa59a242085da14be9e19ba0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13062
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
This sometime worries new contributors.
Hopefully mentioning it here will help.
Fixes#11300.
Change-Id: Ica7f10d749731704ac6a2c39c7dcba389996011e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11236
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reflect the process changes where AUTHORS and CONTRIBUTORS
files are updated automatically based on commit logs
and Google committers no longer need to do it manually
on the first contributors.
The documentation update will help to avoid requests to be
added from new contributors.
Change-Id: I67daae5bd21246cf79fe3724838889b929bc5e66
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10824
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
- Fixed term in preceding section: submitted -> merged.
- Clear transitions between web sites.
- Clarify "types" of G Accounts.
- Less verbose "Configure Git" instructions. [l10n]
- Google uses the term "sign in".
- Mention .gitcookie file created.
Update "Register with Gerrit".
- Link directly to gerrit /login/ .
HTML
- Removed non-ascii "hidden characters".
- Encoded some & and >.
Change-Id: I0d99102def6b32e09b8e42fa40e20227ad5e7568
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5892
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
This CL adjusts code referring to src/pkg to refer to src.
Immediately after submitting this CL, I will submit
a change doing 'hg mv src/pkg/* src'.
That change will be too large to review with Rietveld
but will contain only the 'hg mv'.
This CL will break the build.
The followup 'hg mv' will fix it.
For more about the move, see golang.org/s/go14nopkg.
LGTM=r
R=r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/134570043
Smooth out the setup process for new contributors.
* Remove references $GOROOT (often not defined).
* Add a note for contributing to subrepositories.
* Emphasize that hg mail also uploads the latest copy.
LGTM=adg
R=golang-codereviews, iant, adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/74370043
CLA links are now redirects. Use new URLs instead.
Also, use https:// links for all Google sites where
the http version just redirects to https anyway.
(That's all links on the page, as it turns out)
LGTM=adg
R=golang-codereviews, adg
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/69980051
Tell Windows users how to update Mercurial's library.zip to add some missing dependencies.
Fixes#4745.
R=golang-dev, patrick.allen.higgins, minux.ma, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7558043
Fixes#4582.
* mentioned hg upload.
* added section on hg file.
* added small mention about being inside $GOROOT.
* added hg revert @NNNN
* reorganise the hg submit section for the common case of a non committer.
* made the Copyright section h2
* added note about leaving copyright years unchanged.
R=golang-dev, metanata4, shivakumar.gn, minux.ma, adg, shanemhansen
CC=golang-dev, metanata4
https://golang.org/cl/7278047
