Mainframe Open Education Project

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Governance

Mainframe Open Education is a project hosted by the Open Mainframe Project. This project has established it's own processes for managing day-to-day processes in the project at GOVERNANCE.md.

Contributing to this repository

###Pre-requisites:

GitHub account: https://github.com/join

One of the following:

Git commandline: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

###Steps to Fork and Clone repository:

You've made it to the GitHub repository! Find and select the Fork button at the top. This will allow you to create your own copy of the MOE repository to save your work in. Note: You will need to be signed in to GitHub to complete these steps.
From the pop-up, select your repository (you might only have one).
In the upper right corner, find the icon for your account. Select the arrow and select Your repositories. This will take you to a list of your repositories on GitHub including the MOE fork you just made.
In your list of repositories, find and select omp-education.
Make a clone of your copy of omp-education using Git commandline or GitHub Desktop.

a. Follow the direction here for using GitHub Desktop: https://docs.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-and-collaborating-using-github-desktop/cloning-a-repository-from-github-to-github-desktop

b. Using Git commandline, follow these steps:
1. Under the code button in your repository, select the copy button next to the URL.
2. Open a terminal on your local machine.
3. In the terminal, enter git clone and paste in the URL you copied from your repository. It should look like:

➜  ~ git clone https://github.com/SweetJenn23/omp-education.git
Cloning into 'omp-education'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 72, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (72/72), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (55/55), done.
remote: Total 72 (delta 19), reused 36 (delta 5), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (72/72), 19.58 KiB | 3.26 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19/19), done.

Congratulations! You now have a local copy and your own repository to work in and save your changes to. When you are ready to commit your changes, continue to the next section.

Submit a pull request to commit changes.

Push your changes to your local repository. You can do this with Git commandline or with GitHub Desktop. a. Using GitHub Desktop, follow steps 2. Selecting changes to include in a commit and 4. Write a commit message and push your changes: https://docs.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-and-collaborating-using-github-desktop/committing-and-reviewing-changes-to-your-project#2-selecting-changes-to-include-in-a-commit b. Using Git commandline, you'll need to use the following commands to commit your changes:
- git add
- git commit
- git push
Examples on how these commands can be used can be found here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-basics/start-using-git.html#add-and-commit-local-changes
Once your changes are committed to your GitHub repository, it's time to make a pull request. In a browser where you are logged into your omp-education repository, select Pull request from the tabs and select the New pull request button.
Review the changes. Important: Make sure there is an arrow pointing from your repository to the openmainframeproject/omp-education repository. When you are ready, select Create pull request.
Add any supporting information for maintainers to support or explain your contributions. Select Create pull request.
You'll see that a review is required. Once maintainers have reviewed and approved your contribution, it will be merged into the openmainframeproject/omp-education repository.

Congratulations! You've just contributed to the Mainframe Open Education project!