update contributing guidelines

wiki/contribute.md

@@ -2,62 +2,45 @@
 title: contributing
 subtitle: how to help out
 author: cark
-date: 2021-03-05
+date: 2021-04-06
 ---
-this wiki is written with markdown and turned into html with pandoc. i store everything on my phabricator instance @ https://code.cark.website/. if you're not familiar with phabricator already, the workflow may seem a little bit strange but this doc will try to guide you through it. if you're stuck, don't hesitate to send a message on irc!
 
-0. make an account on the [phabricator instance ](https://code.cark.website/)  
-   signups require approval beforehand to reduce spam, just ping an admin on irc and they'll approve it.
+This wiki is just a bunch of markdown files that are compiled into html via pandoc using a [makefile](https://tildegit.org/southlondon/site/src/branch/main/wiki/Makefile) i stole from [ben of tilde.team](https://tilde.team/~ben/) (sorry). If you want, you too can write some wiki pages. 
 
-1. clone the repo from phabricator:
-```bash
-cark@southlondon:~$ git clone https://code.cark.website/diffusion/4/south-london.git
-Cloning into 'south-london'...
-remote: Enumerating objects: 111, done.
-remote: Counting objects: 100% (111/111), done.
-remote: Compressing objects: 100% (99/99), done.
-remote: Total 111 (delta 51), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
-Receiving objects: 100% (111/111), 251.23 KiB | 2.03 MiB/s, done.
-Resolving deltas: 100% (51/51), done.
+To start off, you'll need to have `pandoc`, `make` and `git` installed. Once you've got all that installed, you'll need to fork [the repo](https://tildegit.org/southlondon/site) on tildegit, and clone it to your home directory (or somewhere on your computer):
 ```
+git clone git@tildegit.org:lp0/site.git
+```
+Now `cd` into it, make your changes and commit.
+```
+$ cd site/wiki
+$ emacs contribute.md
+...
+$ git add contribute.md
+$ git commit -m "h"
+[main dda1f89] h
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+$ git push
+...
+```
+To see how your changes will look on the actual site, just run `make` and open up an http server (like the one built into python):
+```
+$ make
 
-2. make your changes  
-   if you've never used markdown, you might want to have a look at [this here cheat sheet](https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/)
-
-3. build it  
-   run `make` to build all wiki pages, you can then open up a http server and browse away!
-```bash
-cark@southlondon:~/south-london/wiki$ make
+building xmpp.html
+building login.html
+building meta.html
+building ssh.html
+building index.html
 building contribute.html
-$ python3 -m http.server 8000
+finished updating
+
+$ python3 -m http.server
 Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
-# wiki content will be served up at http://localhost:8000/wiki/
 ```
-4. commit and submit a diff to phabricator  
-```bash
-cark@southlondon:~/south-london/wiki$ git diff > patch.diff
-# upload the file it spits out to https://code.cark.website/differential/diff/create/
-
-# you can also use arc for this if you have it installed
-cark@southlondon:~/south-london/wiki$ arc diff
-You have uncommitted changes in this working copy.
-
-  Working copy: /home/cark/south-london/
-
-  Unstaged changes in working copy:
-    changes.diff
-
-Uncommitted changes in working copy:
-    site/fonts/ComicMono-Bold.ttf
-    site/fonts/ComicMono.ttf
-    site/main.css
-    site/wiki/contribute.md
-
-
-    Do you want to create a new commit with these 5 change(s)? [y/N] y
-# fill in the blanks when asked
-
+to clear out the files generated, just do `make clean`:
 ```
-5. fill in the details  
-   give it a name, describe your changes, add a test plan (usually just run make and open in an http server). set south london as the tag.
-after you've submitted it, you can ping an admin on irc or just wait for someone to see it and they'll review it. keep an eye on the comments in case changes are needed.
+$ make clean
+removing build artifacts
+```
+now just make a pr and it'll get reviewed by someone (probably me) fairly quickly.