Content contribution workflow

Table of Contents

Overview
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The content contribution diagram below shows how contributions can be done to espressif / developer-portal, marked as Public Upstream. It is Developer Portal’s public GitHub repo.

flowchart RL
    id1[Public \nUpstream]
    id2[Private \nmirror]
    id3[Public \nFork]
    id4[Private \nmirror]
    id5[Public \nFork]
    subgraph sg1 [GitHub]
        id1
        id3
        id5
    end
    subgraph sg2 [Espressif GitLab]
        id2
    end
    subgraph sg3 [Anywhere]
        id4
    end
    id2 -- Internal \ncontributions \n(private) ---> id1
    id3 -. External \ncontributions \n(public) .-> id1
    id4 -. External \ncontributions \n(private) .-> id5
    id5 -.-> id1
    style id1 fill:#99f
    classDef dashedStyle stroke-width:1px,stroke-dasharray: 5 5;
    class id3,id4,id5 dashedStyle;

The internal contributions from Espressif will be prepared in the private mirror on Espressif’s GitLab, because during writing and editing, some sensitive information might be mentioned, such as the details of the upcoming products, speculations about future plans, etc.

The external contributions can be done in the following ways:

Public: External contributors create a fork of espressif / developer-portal and offer a PR.
Private: External contributors create a private mirror anywhere they want, prepare the material to contribute, and either invite Espressif’s reviewers to their private mirror or offer a PR via a fork and have the review done publicly.

Usage
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The workflows for contributions are as follows:

For public contributions from a forked repo to espressif / developer-portal, follow the standard GitHub procedures.
For private contributions, see

How to contribute from Espressif GitLab
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To contribute from the private mirror on Espressif GitLab to espressif / developer-portal, do the following:

In GitLab mirror, create a new branch and make the desired updates
Invite Espressif’s reviewers to do the review

Once the private work on the new branch is done, do the following in the GitLab mirror:

# Pull latest updates from upstream main if any
git fetch upstream main && git pull upstream main
# ! Replace <new-branch> with your branch name
git rebase upstream/main <new-branch>
# Push the branch with contributions to the public repo
git push upstream <new-branch>

In espressif / developer-portal, create a PR from your <new-branch> to main
Remove the merged branch in GitLab mirror

How to contribute from Anywhere
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For private contributions from anywhere, do the following:

Set up a private mirror as described in How to set up a private mirror
In your private mirror, create a new branch and make the desired updates
Invite Espressif’s reviewers to your private mirror to do the review

Once the private work on the new branch is finished, do the following in the private mirror:

# Pull latest updates from upstream main if any
git fetch upstream main && git pull upstream main
# ! Replace <new-branch> with your branch name
git rebase upstream/main <new-branch>
# Push the branch with contributions to the public repo
git push upstream <new-branch>

After that, fork espressif / developer-portal and create a PR from your <new-branch> to main of espressif / developer-portal (public review will be done at this stage)

How to set up a private mirror
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To set up a private mirror of espressif / developer-portal, do the following:

Create a private mirror of espressif / developer-portal
(GitHub only) In the private mirror, consider disabling the existing GitHub workflows as no developer portal deployment can be done from a mirror anyway
On GitHub, create a fork of espressif / developer-portal
In the private mirror, add your fork from the previous step as the upstream remote; you will want to push your contributions upstream to create a PR to espressif / developer-portal