I was looking though my old computer at the old minecraft mods I had downloaded, looking for them on github, when I found that one mod had many help-wanted tags in their issues section.
They have a very helpful ‘contribution guide’ that I followed before even starting to contribute
To be honest, I don’t play minecraft much anymore so I don’t remember any bugs that I can report, so I just checked the repo issues section so see what issues were in high demand of solving in the community.
The issue I saw that had the tag ‘easy’ seemed like a good starting place.
Luckily, exactly what I had to do was in the description so I needed to go into the .json files to fix this issue.
I started where the description told me to go and I found the issue right away.
In all of the .json files for the categories, there is no link to a description and then that link should be added to the translation file also to define the english text for the new key.
Firstly I went into one file and added a description link (I just did one to start so that if it went wrong I don’t break anything)(I didn’t see the first link made but I fixed it before finishing)
I found the part in the english translation file with the categories that needed descriptions. I read thoroughly through the whole of the botanica so that I can accurately write the descriptions (although I’m not a creative writer) and kept each description to be ‘half a page long at most’ as per the guidelines.
It wasn’t clear in the description of the issue what style these entries should be written so I just kind of follow the style of the rest of the Botanica.
After adding in these, I went back and changed all the individual json files to link to the descriptions I added. Going through those files, I found that there was already a description added to one of the .json files so I didn’t change
Then, I created a pull request. I specified exactly what the branch does and then added that if they can give me some more detail on the writing style, I would be happy to change it… still weirdly nerve-wracking sending the request.
https://github.com/VazkiiMods/Botania/pull/4849
This is the pull! Thanks.
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