From b907d71ea2f641290b47f6354da6f8bc60463a3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ivan Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:17:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Create no-git-submissions.md --- docs/no-git-submissions.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/no-git-submissions.md diff --git a/docs/no-git-submissions.md b/docs/no-git-submissions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e509942 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/no-git-submissions.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +A shortcoming of the official [qubes-doc](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/) is that basic git knowledge is [required](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/doc-guidelines/)) to contribute (concepts like forking a repo, understanding pull requests, ... have to be mastered, as well as synchronizing an upstream repository for later contributions). + +Qubes users who don't want to learn git for a reason or another can simply create an issue in this github community page ("Issue" tab) with any content they deem fit: documentation (new or improvements), suggestions, fixes, one-liners, ... + +Once the issue's content is discussed in the issue and is deemed OK, a community member will create a git pull request on your behalf and will take care of anything "git". Note that attribution/credit cannot be assigned to you, it is a technical shortcoming of having a pull request created and submitted on your behalf. + +It would of course ease the burden on members if returning contributors learn the few basic git steps required to submit pull requests themselves, but this is of course not a requirement.