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Contribute to Ory Documentation

Introduction

Please note: We take Ory Documentation's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you believe you have found a security issue in Ory Documentation, please disclose by contacting us at [email protected].

There are many ways in which you can contribute. The goal of this document is to provide a high-level overview of how you can get involved in Ory.

As a potential contributor, your changes and ideas are welcome at any hour of the day or night, weekdays, weekends, and holidays. Please do not ever hesitate to ask a question or send a pull request.

If you are unsure, just ask or submit the issue or pull request anyways. You won't be yelled at for giving it your best effort. The worst that can happen is that you'll be politely asked to change something. We appreciate any sort of contributions, and don't want a wall of rules to get in the way of that.

That said, if you want to ensure that a pull request is likely to be merged, talk to us! You can find out our thoughts and ensure that your contribution won't clash with Ory Documentation's direction. A great way to do this is via Ory Documentation Discussions or the Ory Chat.

FAQ

How can I contribute?

If you want to start to contribute code right away, take a look at the list of good first issues.

There are many other ways you can contribute. Here are a few things you can do to help out:

  • Give us a star. It may not seem like much, but it really makes a difference. This is something that everyone can do to help out Ory Documentation. Github stars help the project gain visibility and stand out.

  • Join the community. Sometimes helping people can be as easy as listening to their problems and offering a different perspective. Join our Slack, have a look at discussions in the forum and take part in community events. More info on this in Communication.

  • Answer discussions. There are at all times a number of unanswered discussions on GitHub, you can see an overview here. If you think you know an answer or can provide some information that might help, please share it! Bonus: You get GitHub achievements for answered discussions.

  • Help with open issues. We have a lot of open issues for Ory Documentation and some of them may lack necessary information, some are duplicates of older issues. You can help out by guiding people through the process of filling out the issue template, asking for clarifying information, or pointing them to existing issues that match their description of the problem.

  • Review documentation changes. Most documentation just needs a review for proper spelling and grammar. If you think a document can be improved in any way, feel free to hit the edit button at the top of the page. More info on contributing to documentation here.

  • Help with tests. Pull requests may lack proper tests or test plans. These are needed for the change to be implemented safely.

Communication

We use Slack. You are welcome to drop in and ask questions, discuss bugs and feature requests, talk to other users of Ory, etc.

Check out Ory Documentation Discussions. This is a great place for in-depth discussions and lots of code examples, logs and similar data.

You can also join our community calls, if you want to speak to the Ory team directly or ask some questions. You can find more info and participate in Slack in the #community-call channel.

If you want to receive regular notifications about updates to Ory Documentation, consider joining the mailing list. We will only send you vital information on the projects that you are interested in.

Also follow us on twitter.

Contribute examples

One of the most impactful ways to make a contribution is adding examples. You can find an overview of examples using Ory services in the documentation examples page. Source code for examples can be found in most cases in the ory/examples repository.

If you would like to contribute a new example, we would love to hear from you!

Please open an issue to describe your example before you start working on it. We would love to provide guidance to make for a pleasant contribution experience. Go through this checklist to contribute an example:

  1. Create a github issue proposing a new example and make sure it's different from an existing one.
  2. Fork the repo and create a feature branch off of master so that changes do not get mixed up.
  3. Add a descriptive prefix to commits. This ensures a uniform commit history and helps structure the changelog. Please refer to this list of prefixes for Documentation for an overview.
  4. Create a README.md that explains how to use the example. (Use the README template).
  5. Open a pull request and maintainers will review and merge your example.

Contribute code

Unless you are fixing a known bug, we strongly recommend discussing it with the core team via a GitHub issue or in our chat before getting started to ensure your work is consistent with Ory Documentation's roadmap and architecture.

All contributions are made via pull requests. To make a pull request, you will need a GitHub account; if you are unclear on this process, see GitHub's documentation on forking and pull requests. Pull requests should be targeted at the master branch. Before creating a pull request, go through this checklist:

  1. Create a feature branch off of master so that changes do not get mixed up.
  2. Rebase your local changes against the master branch.
  3. Run the full project test suite with the go test -tags sqlite ./... (or equivalent) command and confirm that it passes.
  4. Run make format if a Makefile is available, gofmt -s if the project is written in Go, npm run format if the project is written for NodeJS.
  5. Add a descriptive prefix to commits. This ensures a uniform commit history and helps structure the changelog.
    Please refer to this list of prefixes for Documentation for an overview.
  6. Sign-up with CircleCI so that it has access to your repository with the branch containing your PR. Simply creating a CircleCI account is sufficient for the CI jobs to run, you do not need to setup a CircleCI project for the branch.

If a pull request is not ready to be reviewed yet it should be marked as a "Draft".

Before your contributions can be reviewed you need to sign our Contributor License Agreement.

This agreement defines the terms under which your code is contributed to Ory. More specifically it declares that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. You can see the Apache 2.0 license under which our projects are published here.

When pull requests fail testing, authors are expected to update their pull requests to address the failures until the tests pass.

Pull requests eligible for review

  1. follow the repository's code formatting conventions;
  2. include tests which prove that the change works as intended and does not add regressions;
  3. document the changes in the code and/or the project's documentation;
  4. pass the CI pipeline;
  5. have signed our Contributor License Agreement;
  6. include a proper git commit message following the Conventional Commit Specification.

If all of these items are checked, the pull request is ready to be reviewed and you should change the status to "Ready for review" and request review from a maintainer.

Reviewers will approve the pull request once they are satisfied with the patch.

Contribute documentation

Please provide documentation when changing, removing, or adding features. All Ory Documentation resides in the Ory documentation repository. For further instructions please head over to the Ory Documentation README.md.

Disclosing vulnerabilities

Please disclose vulnerabilities exclusively to [email protected]. Do not use GitHub issues.

Code style

Please follow these guidelines when formatting source code:

  • Go code should match the output of gofmt -s and pass golangci-lint run.
  • NodeJS and JavaScript code should be prettified using npm run format where appropriate.

Working with forks

# First you clone the original repository
git clone [email protected]:ory/ory/docs.git

# Next you add a git remote that is your fork:
git remote add fork [email protected]:<YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME-HERE>/ory/docs.git

# Next you fetch the latest changes from origin for master:
git fetch origin
git checkout master
git pull --rebase

# Next you create a new feature branch off of master:
git checkout my-feature-branch

# Now you do your work and commit your changes:
git add -A
git commit -a -m "fix: this is the subject line" -m "This is the body line. Closes #123"

# And the last step is pushing this to your fork
git push -u fork my-feature-branch

Now go to the project's GitHub Pull Request page and click "New pull request"

Conduct

Whether you are a regular contributor or a newcomer, we care about making this community a safe place for you and we've got your back.

Ory Community Code of Conduct

We welcome discussion about creating a welcoming, safe, and productive environment for the community. If you have any questions, feedback, or concerns please let us know.