Contribute - Codebase Overview / Contribution Guide

[TheLarkInn]

After a great suggestion from a contributor, I've decided to open this issue to any contributors who would like to create a section completely devoted to contributing to the webpack source code, and an overview of the code.

• Codebase Overview - https://reactjs.org/docs/how-to-contribute.html
• Contribution Guide - https://reactjs.org/docs/codebase-overview.html

Both links show a great bulleted list of things that should be mentioned in this adaptation for webpack. I'm going to assign myself as advisor/mentor to this for contributors who would like to take a piece of one of these tasks. Breaking it down we'd need to:

• Section for contributing built into docs arch.
• Section for code overview built into docs arch.
• Start adding actual content for the pages/sections.

[iamclaytonray]

I shall help 😄

[samundrak]

Hope to see this soon on webpack website 👍
seems links on checkbox are exchanged @TheLarkInn

[skipjack]

Please add these pages to the Contribute section, which already exists. You can create a subgroup(s) in the Contribute section if necessary using the group key in each page's YAML frontmatter. This will cause a set of pages to be grouped in the sidebar on the left.

[iamclaytonray]

I'm not sure what the timeline is for this. I can help out some in the next 2(ish) weeks until a contract of mine is finished, and then I can spend a lot more time on this. @skipjack @TheLarkInn - is that okay? I'm happy to pass this off to someone who has more time and contribute to something else in the future.

@skipjack - Will do. Thanks for advising me!

[TheLarkInn]

@iamclaytonray this is more then okay! This is not a release blocking set of documentation, but is still pretty important! So I think it's best for anyone involved in this thread to do the following:

• Pick one piece (that is small enough to chip off in nor more then an hours worth of work) that you want to work on.
• Create an issue for that piece, tag the original issue here with it. (ill tie it up once its tagged).
• Work on it when you can.
• Rinse, repeat.

[iamclaytonray]

Cool. Thanks for your understanding! Will revisit this later when I get some more work done and decide which portion I'd like to tackle 😄

[s1iqbal]

Ill start working on it too!

[iamclaytonray]

I'll tackle contributing docs. @s1iqbal @TheLarkInn

[iamclaytonray]

Hey @TheLarkInn @skipjack - Finally caught up a bit and working on this. It seems as if each sub-section is still located in the same Contribute section, on the same page. Just so I have this correct, that is okay, right? How To Contribute, Codebase Overview, etc are all supposed to be on the same page?

That's what I am doing now. If I misunderstood, I can just move things around as you guys see fit. 😄