Welcome to DocsGPT Contributing Guidelines

Thank you for choosing to contribute to DocsGPT! We are all very grateful!

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We accept different types of contributions

📣 Discussions - Engage in conversations, start new topics, or help answer questions.

🐞 Issues - This is where we keep track of tasks. It could be bugs,fixes or suggestions for new features.

🛠️ Pull requests - Suggest changes to our repository, either by working on existing issues or adding new features.

📚 Wiki - This is where our documentation resides.

🐞 Issues and Pull requests

We value contributions in the form of discussions or suggestions. We recommend taking a look at existing issues and our roadmap.

Before creating issues, please check out how the latest version of our app looks and works by launching it via Quickstart the version on our live demo is slightly modified with login. Your issues should relate to the version that you can launch via Quickstart.

👨‍💻 If you're interested in contributing code, here are some important things to know:

Tech Stack Overview:

🌐 Frontend: Built with React (Vite) ⚛️,
🖥 Backend: Developed in Python 🐍

🌐 If you are looking to contribute to frontend (⚛️React, Vite):

The current frontend is being migrated from /application to /frontend with a new design, so please contribute to the new one.
Check out this milestone and its issues.
The updated Figma design can be found here.

Please try to follow the guidelines.

🖥 If you are looking to contribute to Backend (🐍 Python):

Review our issues and contribute to /application or /scripts (please disregard old ingest_rst.py ingest_rst_sphinx.py files; they will be deprecated soon).
All new code should be covered with unit tests (pytest). Please find tests under /tests folder.
Before submitting your Pull Request, ensure it can be queried after ingesting some test data.

Testing

To run unit tests from the root of the repository, execute:

python -m pytest

Workflow 📈

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to contribute to DocsGPT:

Fork the Repository:
- Click the "Fork" button at the top-right of this repository to create your fork.
Clone the Forked Repository:
- Clone the repository using: ''' shell git clone https://github.com//DocsGPT.git '''
Keep your Fork in Sync:
- Before you make any changes, make sure that your fork is in sync to avoid merge conflicts using: '''shell git remote add upstream https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT.git git pull upstream master '''
Create and Switch to a New Branch:
- Create a new branch for your contribution using:
```
git checkout -b your-branch-name
```
Make Changes:
- Make the required changes in your branch.
Add Changes to the Staging Area:
- Add your changes to the staging area using:
```
git add .
```
Commit Your Changes:
- Commit your changes with a descriptive commit message using:
```
git commit -m "Your descriptive commit message"
```
Push Your Changes to the Remote Repository:
- Push your branch with changes to your fork on GitHub using:
```
git push origin your-branch-name
```
Submit a Pull Request (PR):
- Create a Pull Request from your branch to the main repository. Make sure to include a detailed description of your changes and reference any related issues.
Collaborate:

Be responsive to comments and feedback on your PR.
Make necessary updates as suggested.
Once your PR is approved, it will be merged into the main repository.

Testing:

Before submitting a Pull Request, ensure your code passes all unit tests.
To run unit tests from the root of the repository, execute:
```
python -m pytest
```

Note: You should run the unit test only after making the changes to the backend code.

Questions and Collaboration:
- Feel free to join our Discord. We're very friendly and welcoming to new contributors, so don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you for considering contributing to DocsGPT! 🙏

Questions/collaboration

Feel free to join our Discord. We're very friendly and welcoming to new contributors, so don't hesitate to reach out.

Thank you so much for considering to contribute DocsGPT!🙏

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