bi-14 step 01 — Rung 1: complete the process once

Goal

Land a docs or test-only change. The goal is the process, not the change. Learning Gerrit, presubmit, and try-job failures while also defending a behaviour change costs a week and a reviewer's patience; learning it with a doc fix costs a day.

Tasks

  1. Complete the CLA; add yourself to AUTHORS in your first CL.
  2. Find a genuine documentation error or a missing test in an area you have studied. Genuine — do not manufacture a typo fix.
  3. git checkout -b, make the change, git cl format, git cl upload.
  4. Write the description properly: what, why, Bug: footer if applicable.
  5. git cl owners; request review; run a CQ dry run before asking a human.
  6. Respond to every comment, even if only "Done."
  7. Record every step that surprised you. That list is the deliverable.

Done when

  • A CL uploaded and taken to a conclusion
  • Surprises recorded
  • You can describe the difference between a patchset and a commit