Contributing

Contributor types

• admins (owners) can control all aspects of the organization and see (and control) all repository content (including private repos)
• org members: NOAA staff. Able to create public or private repositories.
• outside collaborators on org repos, NOAA staff. Can contribute via direct push to repositories
• outside collaborators on org repos, non-NOAA. Can contribute via pull requests to repositories
• public (not org members or outside collaborators on repos). Can interact with public repositories (see below).

Ways to contribute

For public repositories, anyone can contribute issues and discussions (if enabled). Public repositories can also be forked and a pull-request submitted.

Only NOAA staff (with current NOAA email) can be an owner of a repository on nmfs-opensci or be a contributor with direct push permissions. Non-NOAA GitHub users can be added as contributors to public and private repositories, but with review turned on (i.e. no direct push access).

NOAA users

NOAA staff who wish to contribute to nmfs-opensci

• need to have 2FA turned on
• should review the NMFS GitHub Checklist which outlines the types of material that are not allowed on GitHub

Then contact the nmfs-opensci admins to discuss the repository you would like to create and manage on nmfs-opensci.