CONTRIBUTING.md conflicts with collaborator-only PR restriction
- Dominant language
- Go
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
`CONTRIBUTING.md` instructs contributors to fork the repository, push a branch, and submit a pull request, but a fork owned by a non-collaborator cannot open a pull request because the repository UI says “Only collaborators can create PRs” and `gh pr create` fails with a CreatePullRequest permission error; consequently, the documented contribution flow cannot be completed by a non-collaborator.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Open CONTRIBUTING.md and review the fork, branch, and pull request instructions against the collaborator restriction and the reported `gh pr create` permission error. Update the documented contribution flow so non-collaborators can follow a valid process, then verify that the instructions no longer promise an unavailable action.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github
- Domain
- developer-experience, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100