Contributing to GitLab

SCaLE18x

~ everyone can contribute ~

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Agenda

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• Where can people contribute?
• Good places to start
• How to get help
• Q&A

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Where can people contribute?

To get started, please visit the main “Contribute” page

• UX Design
• We welcome contribution from wider community to help improve GitLab’s UX designs
• List of UX issues for community contributions
• Visit the GitLab Design System page to learn more about resources, components and design guidelines behind GitLab
• Tutorial slides + Tutorial video
• Translation
• GitLab is translated in many languages by wider community members
• Translation is managed on CrowdIn
• Tutorial video
• Blog post

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Where can people contribute?

• Documentation
• If you find a documentation with spelling/grammar mistakes or that lacks important information, please submit an MR with the fix(es)
• For web pages, you can click “Edit this page” link at the bottom of the page to start modifying the page.
• Tutorial video
• Development
• Install the GitLab Development Kit (GDK)
• GDK tutorial playlist
• If you’re making a feature change that impacts users/admins, you will also need to update documentation(s)
• Development guidelines

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Good places to start

• Work through issues with the label “Accepting merge requests” and has the “Backlog” milestone
• These have been reviewed by GitLab team members and they are often listed in the issue
• https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Accepting%20merge%20requests&milestone_title=Backlog&weight=1
• Add other labels such as “Documentation” or “Good for 1st time contributors” if you want to further narrow the list
• However, any other contributions are welcome and you don’t even need an issue to submit an MR!

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Where to get help

• Post questions on Contributors Gitter
• Reach out to Merge Request Coaches
• Find merge request coaches in the GitLab Team Page and search for “Merge Request Coach”
• You can mention Merge Request Coaches by typing @gitlab-org/coaches in a comment
• MR Coach tutorial
• Reviewers/maintainers of GitLab projects are also listed here
• For any other questions/feedback, you can send an email to contributors@gitlab.com

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Submit an MR during SCaLE18x and win a pair of GitLab socks!

• Mention me in the MR (`@rpaik`) and let me know this is from SCaLE
• Happy to deliver in person during the conference!
• List of simple documentation errors/typos

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Q & A

Questions?

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