Contribution Guidelines

How to contribute to the docs

We use Hugo to format and generate this documentation website and the Docsy theme for styling and site structure. All pages are written in Markdown.

If you have contributions to this site, you are welcome to send submissions.

All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests.

Start contributing

Here’s a quick guide to updating the docs. It assumes you’re familiar with the GitHub workflow:

  1. Fork the docs.meetingroommap.net repo on GitHub.
  2. Make your changes.
  3. When you’re ready for a review, send a pull request (PR).

Updating a single page

If you’ve just spotted something you’d like to change while using the docs:

  1. Click Edit this page in the top right hand corner of the page.
  2. If you don’t already have an up to date fork of the project repo, you are prompted to get one - click Fork this repository and propose changes or Update your Fork to get an up to date version of the project to edit. The appropriate page in your fork is displayed in edit mode.
  3. Follow the rest of the Start contributing process above to make, preview, and propose your changes.

Previewing your changes locally

If you want to run your own local Hugo server to preview your changes as you work:

  1. Follow the instructions in Docsy Getting started to install Hugo and any other tools you need. You’ll need at least Hugo version 0.45 (we recommend using the most recent available version), and it must be the extended version, which supports SCSS.

  2. Fork the docs.meetingroommap.net repo into your own project, then create a local copy using git clone. Don’t forget to use --recurse-submodules or you won’t pull down some of the code you need to generate a working site.

    git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://github.com/google/docsy-example.git

  3. Run hugo server in the site root directory. By default your site will be available at http://localhost:1313/. Now that you’re serving your site locally, Hugo will watch for changes to the content and automatically refresh your site.

  4. Continue with the usual GitHub workflow to edit files, commit them, push the changes up to your fork, and create a pull request.

Creating an issue

If you’ve found a problem in the docs, but you’re not sure how to fix it yourself, please create an issue in the docs.meetingroommap.net repo. You can also create an issue about a specific page by clicking the Create Issue button in the top right hand corner of the page.

Useful resources

  • [Docsy user guide](wherever it goes): All about Docsy, including how it manages navigation, look and feel, and multi-language support.
  • Hugo documentation: Comprehensive reference for Hugo.
  • Github Hello World!: A basic introduction to GitHub concepts and workflow.