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Contributing

We value your documentation contributions, and we want to make it as easy as possible to work in this repository. One of the first things to decide is which branch to base your work on. If you get confused, just ask and we will help. If a reviewer realizes you have based your work on the wrong branch, we'll let you know so that you can rebase it.

Note: To contribute code to Docker projects, see the Contribution guidelines.

Quickstart

If you spot a problem while reading the documentation and want to try to fix it yourself, click the Edit this page link at the bottom of that page. The page will open in the Github editor, which means you don't need to know a lot about Git, or even about Markdown.

When you save, you will be prompted to create a fork if you don't already have one, and to create a branch in your fork and submit the pull request. We hope you give it a try!

Overall doc improvements

Most commits will be made against the master branch. This include:

  • Conceptual and task-based information not specific to new features
  • Restructuring / rewriting
  • Doc bug fixing
  • Typos and grammar errors

One quirk of this project is that the master branch is where the live docs are published from, so upcoming features can't be documented there. See Specific new features for a project for how to document upcoming features. These feature branches will be periodically merged with master, so don't worry about fixing typos and documentation bugs there.

Do you enjoy creating graphics? Good graphics are key to great documentation, and we especially value contributions in this area.

Specific new features for a project

Our docs cover many projects which release at different times. If, and only if, your pull request relates to a currently unreleased feature of a project, base your work on that project's vnext branch. These branches were created by cloning master and then importing a project's master branch's docs into it (at the time of the migration), in a way that preserved the commit history. When a project has a release, its vnext branch will be merged into master and your work will be visible on docs.docker.com.

The following vnext branches currently exist:

Style guide

If you have questions about how to write for Docker's documentation, please see the style guide. The style guide provides guidance about grammar, syntax, formatting, styling, language, or tone. If something isn't clear in the guide, please submit an issue to let us know or submit a pull request to help us improve it.