OAI / OAI/Overlay-Specification

Branching strategy in CONTRIBUTING.md is outdated (I think)

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Description

I am confused about our branching strategy in the Overlays repo.

I tried reading: https://github.com/OAI/Overlay-Specification/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#branching-strategy

That says that work in progress versions go in versions/X.Y.Z-dev.md in main.

But Version 1.2 is in src/overlay.md in the 1.2-dev branch.

@baywet believes that the branching strategy being used for Version 1.2 is correct, and CONTRIBUTING.md is describing a old branching strategy that has not been updated.

If that's correct, we should update CONTRIBUTING.md to describe the current branching strategy.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Compare the branching strategy described in CONTRIBUTING.md with the current Version 1.2 layout in src/overlay.md and the 1.2-dev branch. Confirm which workflow is current, then update the branching-strategy section so it matches that workflow and verify that the Version 1.2 example is accurately represented.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
70/100

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