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Help Wanted: Emphasize in Gitpod docs how to contribute to a plugin project

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Description

Our Gitpod configuration tailors the environment for developing with different plugin projects. Using the Gitpod browser extension, navigating to Gitpod from the given plugin repository creates a Gitpod workspace.

We can emphasize this in our docs, possibly in a different page in the docs than the Gitpod docs page. The page is quite long right now. Maybe we can split it up into different pages in the docs.

Some other related items:

  • We can add links to all the plugin project READMEs, to create new Gitpod workspaces
  • I'd also like to emphasize that you can open a Gitpod workspace from any PR, by using the Gitpod browser extension, and clicking Open in Gitpod while viewing the PR in GitHub

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

Start with the current Gitpod documentation page and the plugin project READMEs mentioned in the issue. Verify the repository and pull-request workflows using the Gitpod browser extension, then update the documentation so both entry points are explained and all plugin READMEs are linked; split the long page only if needed for clarity.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github
Domain
developer-experience, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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