There are been several discussions in recent PRs about
the docs related to contributing not being very discoverable.
Move these docs from doc/guides/ to doc/contributing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <mdawson@devrus.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41408
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Reviewed-By: Mary Marchini <oss@mmarchini.me>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Update mdast-util-to-markdown to 1.2.4 which reduces unnecessary
escaping of `_` and some other characters. Re-run markdown formatter.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40645
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Use `make format-md` to format general markdown files.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40322
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Fix formatting that will change when run through upcoming remark preset.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40154
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
Change the top level docs to use HEAD in links
Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <mdawson@devrus.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37494
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
This corresponds to the format at https://developercertificate.org/.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/37138
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Pooja D P <Pooja.D.P@ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
This section isn't particularly useful in this context and contributes
to making the document longer and less effective. This is part of a
larger effort to make the contributing docs brief, informative, and
friendly.
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/864#issuecomment-628646560
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36905
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Remove "How to Contribute in Issues". This is not Node.js-specific and
is likely to cause many readers to tune out. If we want to include this
kind of how-all-issue-trackers-are-intended-to-work information, let's
link to an external source. But I think it's OK to simply remove it.
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/864#issuecomment-628646560
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36891
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
* Updated cpp style guide file name and location and fixed links to
this file.
* Updated collaborator guide file name and location and fixed links
to this file.
* Updated documentation style guide file name and location and updated
links referencing the file.
* Moved files to appropriate location and updated naming style for
some of them.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/31741
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/31792
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
* Remove redundant "blocking it or stopping it" as blocking and stopping
are the same thing in this case.
* Make another sentence less wordy. Fix incorrect verb conjugation.
Break into two clear sentences.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17931
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Remove incorrect usage of "in which". The sentence is better and shorter
without it anyway. Replace incorrect "with" with "in".
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17930
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Weijia Wang <starkwang@126.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@about-hiroppy.com>
Make the preamble to CONTRIBUTING.md more concise and focused.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17700
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The CoC and moderation guidelines now live in the Admin repo.
This PR updates the copy of CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md and references in
other documents to the proper location.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/17301
Reviewed-By: Jon Moss <me@jonathanmoss.me>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Add informations to CONTRIBUTING.md requesting the committers
and especially the one working on breaking changes to write
proper commits messages containing the reason behind the
breaking changes, the case during which it can be triggered,
and a description of the breaking change in itself.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16846
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
Ideally, most of these things would be enforced via linter rules.
This is a first step into having a style guide that goes beyond
what the linter currently enforces.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16090
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12636
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
You can now run suites for subsystem using shorthand, e.g., http.
Switch to black-list of default test folders from white-list.
Tests run by 'make test', 'make coverage', etc., now configurable.
Stop running known_issues suite when collecting test coverage.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15450
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12552
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
This update changes references to "Mac OS X", "OS X", and "OSX" in
markdown files to "macOS".
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12106
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12086
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
This PR adds cpp linting to windows build script. After this change,
running command `vcbuild lint` will run both cpp linting and javascript
linting on a windows machine.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11856
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/11816
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Put the commit guidelines themselves under a heading to be more
prominent, and to allow linking directly to them (instead of the section
on how to use git).
Link the pull request template to the guidelines, so contributors can
find them.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11792
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
The stability index 3 (Locked) is unused and is being eliminated. Remove
it from the documentation about the stability index.
Remove mention of the Locked from CONTRIBUTING.md. The remaining text
about the stability index is slight and not seemingly valuable. Removing
it too.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11661
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/11200
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Currently, `vcbuild` only supports `jslint`. `vcbuild lint` will not
work because there is no `lint` task specified in `vcbuild.bat`. Update
documentation to use `vcbuild jslint` instead.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11151
Reviewed-By: Nikolai Vavilov <vvnicholas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Corrected parameter for running tests on Windows. Without the corrected
parameters, Windows users encounter an error about failing to sign the
build, "Failed to sign exe", which can be discouraging to new Windows
community members.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10686
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
Standardise on Refs:
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10670
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yorkie Liu <yorkiefixer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>
Currently, two of the guides in the `/doc/guides` directory are actually
guides for working on the Nodei.js project. Of those, one is linked from
this page. This change adds a note to point people to the other.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10070
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
Adds/mentions:
- Link to glossary
- Commit squashing and CI run
- 48/72 hour wait and PR review feature
- Extra notes section
- "Landed in <sha>" comment
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10202
Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10151
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Standardizes docs to use -j4 instead of -j8 as it appears to be the
most inclusive recommendation based on discussion in
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9961.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9961
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
The writing_tests.md file did not utilize kebab-case as the other files
in the directory did.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9867
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Add more info about the contribution process after PR submission.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9259
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
