BoB Participant Contribution

  1. Create a new account in Bitbucket

  2. Go to the repository you want to contribute to

  3. Fork the repository:

    1. Click + on the leftmost global sidebar and select Fork this repository at the bottom of the lists

    2. Name your project

    3. Click Fork repository

  4. Create a local clone of your fork

  5. Make your changes and commit them to your local branch

  6. Push the branch to your Bitbucket fork

  7. Create a Pull Request:

    1. Click + in the global sidebar and select Create a pull request under Get to work

    2. In Description write a summary of what your change explaining what it is intended to do

    3. You can leave Reviewers empty

    4. Click Create pull request

  8. Now everybody, with access to the project, can discuss and review the changes

  9. Once a pull request has been approved the maintainer will pull it into the requested branch of the upstream repository