Geohackweek is an open source project, and we welcome contributions of all kinds: new lessons, fixes to existing material, bug reports, and reviews of proposed changes are all welcome.
By contributing, you agree that we may redistribute your work under our license. In exchange, we will address your issues and/or assess your change proposal as promptly as we can, and help you become a member of our community. Everyone involved in Geohackweek agrees to abide by our code of conduct.
The easiest way to get started is to file an issue to tell us about a spelling mistake, some awkward wording, or a factual error. This is a good way to introduce yourself and to meet some of our community members.
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If you do not have a GitHub account, you can send us comments by email. However, we will be able to respond more quickly if you use one of the other methods described below.
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If you have a GitHub account, or are willing to create one, but do not know how to use Git, you can report problems or suggest improvements by [creating an issue][issues]. This allows us to assign the item to someone and to respond to it in a threaded discussion.
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If you are comfortable with Git, and would like to add or change material, you can submit a pull request (PR). Instructions for doing this are included below.
If you choose to contribute via GitHub, you may want to look at How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub. In brief:
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The published copy of the lesson is in the
gh-pages
branch of the repository (so that GitHub will regenerate it automatically). Please create all branches from that, and merge the master repository'sgh-pages
branch into yourgh-pages
branch before starting work. Please do not work directly in yourgh-pages
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We use GitHub flow to manage changes:
- Create a new branch in your desktop copy of this repository for each significant change.
- Commit the change in that branch.
- Push that branch to your fork of this repository on GitHub.
- Submit a pull request from that branch to the master repository.
- If you receive feedback, make changes on your desktop and push to your branch on GitHub: the pull request will update automatically.
You can reach us by email.