Submission Process

Introduction

Once you believe that you've properly completed all of the submission steps, and want to submit your application for review, follow these steps below.

Note

To be eligible to be added to the ChessBots repo, you must:

1. Be a current UTD Sudent
2. Have paid your Comet Robotics member dues for the semester
3. Have successfully passed the application

Submission

Important

Before merging, make sure your fork is synced with the main application repo! This will prevent merge conflicts. (If you do end up running into merge conflicts that you don't know how to fix while trying to submit, please come to a Friday ChessBots meeting to get it resolved)

Starting the pull request

1. Go to your forked repo
2. Click the green Contribute button, then click Open pull request. This will take you to the pull request screen

It is very important that you format your pull request correctly, and include all of the required information below.

Title:

The title should simply be Application

Description:

Important

This step is extremely important!

We need certain information from you when you submit the application. This information being your full name, your discord username, and your netid (the one used in your email, not your student id). This information will help use keep track of who is who, and allow us to add you to the ChessBots repo in a timely manner. Please format this information like the example below:

Name: Billy Joe  
Discord: billyiscool  
Net ID: bwj000000

Labels:

On the right, there is a section for labels. You MUST include the submission label, and ONLY that label. GitHub tells us who added each label to a pull request, so don't try and accept your own application

Reviewers:

On the right, there is a section for reviewers. By adding someone as a reviewer, it will notify them whenever you submit your pull request. To get your application reviewed in a timely manner, please add Dylan Brose as a reviewer (it will show my username as xXDMOGXx when you type my name).

Submitting the pull request

After double checking that you've entered all the information needed into the pull request, you can click the green 'Create pull request' button under the description box.