Glossary of Terms

Commit

Branch

Development community or just community

DIYbiosphere refers to the project, it includes the

DIYbiosphere organization or just organization

Fork a cloned copy of a project

Git a software that tracks all changes to a collection of documents

GitHub a service that hosts repositories online and uses Git for version control

GitHub Pages

Issue

Merge

Pull request or PR

Ticket

Version Control a way to track changes to a document or collection of documents.

Repository or Repo the collection of files of you project.

Jekyll

Front matter

Netlify

Markdown syntax or markdown

library

dataset

entries

collection

initiative

front matter

Software

Infobox refers to the box located in the top-right hand corner of an entry’s page and contains the factual data related to the entry. The entry’s fields are explained here.

Data Fields usually refers to the the information required in the front matter of each entry and shown in the infobox

Body of text

Content

Code of Conduct

contributor license agreement

TLDR

ELI5

Contribution

Project

Lab