Meza/Short procedure on how to submit a PR to Meza

For Meza edit

  1. At github.com
    1. Log in to your an account at Github.com
    2. Visit the Meza project page at: https://github.com/nasa/meza
    3. Create a "Fork" of the official Meza project on your github account
  2. On your wiki server
    1. cd /opt/meza/
    2. git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<yourgitusername>/meza
    3. Edit the files you think are wrong or need improved
    4. git push -A "a few words about what your changes are"
  3. Back at https://github.com/<yourgitusername>/meza
    1. Verify that the changes you made a reflected in your fork of the meza project
    2. (optional) - Make a pull request (PR) in github using github gui tools to invite primary extension owner to "pull" your changes into their master repo.

For a specific extension on github edit

  1. On your wiki server
    1. vi either /opt/meza/config/core/MezaExtensions.yml or /opt/conf-meza/public/MezaLocalExtennsions.yml and identify the repo source and version of the extension you wish to develop
  2. At https://github.com
    1. Log in to your an account at Github.com
    2. Visit the extension project page at: https://github.com/<extension owner>/<extension name>
    3. Create a "Fork" of the official extension project on your github account
  3. On your wiki server
    1. cd to /opt/htdocs/mediawiki/extension/<extension name>
    2. git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<yourgitusername>/<extension name>
    3. Edit the files you think are wrong or need improved
    4. git push -A "a few words about what your changes are"
  4. Visit https://github.com/<yourgitusername>/<extension name>
    1. Verify that the changes you made a reflected in your fork of the extension
    2. (optional) - Make a pull request (PR) in github using github gui tools to invite primary extension owner to "pull" your changes into their master repo.

tgr's notes edit

You might set it something other than origin, but that's more of a personal workflow choice. e.g.:

  • git remote set-url fork ...;
  • git branch my-fix;
  • git commit;
  • git push fork;
  • git checkout master

...would be more of a feature branch type workflow