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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, at 11:26, Karen Lease wrote:
> Hello Camel developers,
> 
> I'm Karen Lease & I'm interested in contributing to your project. Many 
> years ago I was a committer on FOP but stopped due to my professional 
> workload. For my job I had developed a small "pipeline" project to chain 
> together various processes such as XSLT & FOP specified in an XML 
> configuration, so the Camel philosophy is familiar to me.
> 
> As suggested, I started by browsing the documentation (which is very 
> nicely presented) and I found a small issue on the User Stories page 
> which I propose to fix.
> 
> On the rendered page at 
> https://camel.apache.org/manual/latest/user-stories.html, the cells are 
> in the wrong column after the "Red Hat integration" link. This is due to 
> a missing vertical bar after the RedHat link in the file 
> https://github.com/apache/camel/blob/main/docs/user-manual/modules/ROOT/pages/user-stories.adoc.
> 
> As I'm a newbie to the project and also to Github, I'd like to confirm 
> how this should be fixed. If I click on the "Edit this page" link, it 
> says I have to fork the repository to propose changes. So I assume that 
> means I should:
> 
> 1. Fork the camel repository
> 
> 2. Commit the change in my fork
> 
> 3. Submit a pull request to integrate the fork into the main repository

This is the general process for contributing used for multi file contribution 
more complicated contribution.

> Is that correct? The reason I'm asking is that the description on the 
> page 
> https://camel.apache.org/manual/latest/faq/how-do-i-edit-the-website.html 
> doesn't say anything about the "forking" process and implies that after 
> clicking "Edit this page", you only need to edit the file, preview the 
> changes and that will automatically create the pull request. Making a 
> fork just to add one character seems like overkill but if that's the 
> process, I'm fine with it. In that case, I could also make some minor 
> changes to grammar which I noticed while browsing other docs.

For smaller fixes is totally fine to just use the "Edit this page button".

> I also noticed that the page "how-do-i-edit-the-website.html" has some 
> inconsistencies in the description of how to edit the documentation in a 
> local repository. For example, it says that the site.yml file should be 
> updated to reference your local repository, but there isn't such a file. 
> When I looked at the https://github.com/apache/camel-website repository, 
> I found it also contained a user-stores.md page 
> (https://github.com/apache/camel-website/blob/main/content/community/user-stories.md)
>  
> but with different content than the adoc file.
> 
> Since the actual website matches the adoc file, I assume the md file in 
> camel-website is obsolete. There are some other files which have both 
> .adoc & .md files. Would it make sense to delete the .md files from the 
> camel-website if those are obsolete?

Not sure here cc: zo...@regvart.com

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
> 

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