How to contribute to the Setup repository

Before opening a Pull Request

We know that encountering issues can be frustrating but before opening a PR to modify the setup that can theoretically be used by a few thousand people:

Are you the only one experiencing this issue?
Is it a temporary issue?
Is it a quick fix and shouldn't be used in the long term?

We currently have a cheatsheet for each OS for tips and / issues that don't belong to the setup itself, so feel free to have a look there first. Maybe your contributing should live there:

Opening a Pull Request

We have a specific architecture for the setup so we can reuse part of the content for different platforms (macOS/Windows/Ubuntu).

There are 2 main folders _partials and images:

images is where the images live
partials_ is where the content live. For example, setting up Github is not platform dependent. So we have a _partials/github.md file with the guidelines to setup Github. This allows us to reuse the content described there.

Naming convention

Partials prefixed with the OS are specific to only one OS. Partials shared among two or more OSes have no prefix.

Build

build.rb is the code that generates the 3 files macos.md, ubuntu.md & windows.md and the corresponding chinese translated versions. For each platform, there is a list of partials to use.

To update any content, it is required to update the matching partial. The CI will then run ruby build.rb and commit the changes to the main md files on the branch.

If you modify directly the destination file (macos.md, ubuntu.md & windows.md) without modifying the partials, your changes will be overridden the next time someone (or the CI) runs ruby build.rb

This is the flow you need to follow:

Identify the partial(s) in which you want to make modifications
Make changes
Open PR
Check files after the CI build
Ask for a review

Many thanks for contributing 🙌 🚀