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The following content is for Box employees only. If you are not a Box employee you can skip this section.
There are a few internal sources that are of interest to Box employees.
Slack
- When making changes to a guide, it would be good to clarify why you think this needs to be documented. Some Box features are not meant to be documented, are deprecated, or have been added by accident. Please check in with the team who owns the feature to make sure that the feature can be documented.Jira
- When working on the microcopy and markdown, please open aDDOC
Jira
ticket. The developer relations team maintain our developer documentation. As our documentation is automatically build off these files they are often involved in approving these kind of changes. For developer documentation support you can therefore open aDDOC
ticket to request their support.
When working on this project we recommend the following best practices:
- Branches: Please only work on a feature branch, as the
main
branch is protected. Please use a descriptive name for your branch that mentions both theJira
ticket this relates to, as well as a human description of the change. For example:ddoc-123/add-ice-cream-guides
- Pull Requests: When opening a Pull Request, please use the
template to provide all the information needed.
- Any DDOC or APIWG
Jira
tickets that this change is related to - An estimated date when this change is to go live, if known.
- A description of the change made
- Any DDOC or APIWG
- Draft Pull Requests: When working on a design change that has not yet been approved or isn't ready to be published, we high recommend creating a draft Pull Request, as it won't be accidentally merged before the change is ready.