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CI Check Explanation

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions

Research direction

Start with README.md at the CI checks reference around line 359 and review the surrounding guidance to determine what the term means in this project. The work is done when the guide explains CI checks clearly enough for a new contributor to understand them.

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Description

help wanted priority-2 question

The guide references CI checks on https://github.com/dwyl/contributing/blame/master/README.md#L359

It doesn't explain what a CI check is in this context.

@nelsonic please can you explain so I can make a PR to clarify?

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Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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