smoothieware-website-v1

[!SUCCESS] Contributing

Here is a list of the useful resources you want to read if you want to contribute to the project:

How to submit a pull request to the Smoothieware Github project

[!NOTE] We use edge as our stable branch (master is no longer maintained). We do not have an unstable branch, so this is why we only allow very well tested PRs into edge.

Fork the original repository

Create a Fork in your GitHub of Smoothieware repository by clicking the Fork button.

Fork button

You will now have a forked repository in your list of repositories.

Forked repository

Clone the forked repository

You can get the URL for cloning that repository by clicking the copy URL button.

Copy URL button

On your local workstation clone the repository: git clone <your GitHub fork of Smoothie>

Create a new branch for your bugfix / feature

Create a fix branch with a descriptive name: git checkout -b fix/some-error

[!IMPORTANT] NOTE only one feature/bug fix per branch please

Edit the file to fix the error.

[!WARNING] Please

Commit your changes and push it back on GitHub

Commit the changes: git commit -am 'introduced lots of bugs'

Push the branch to your GitHub: git push origin fix/some-error

Submit your pull request

In GitHub, there should be a button that says pull request for that branch, click it.

Pull request button

Select edge as the destination branch, add comments.

Selecting branch

[!WARNING] Please

Finally, submit the pull request.

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