creating-a-charter-for-review.md

Creating a Charter for Review

These are instructions on how to make a pull request (and add a charter to the repo for review).

Sign-in

Please sign into GitHub in the upper-right corner.

Fork the repo

Click on the "Fork" button (upper right).
Select a space to fork the repo (copy).

Make a new charter document

Copy the current template.

Click on the template document. Click on edit to select (and copy) the markdown.

Write Your Charter.md

Click "Code"
Click "Create new file"
Name the charter. If you give the file the ".md" extension, GitHub will know to display the markdown as a formatted file.
Paste in the template and edit as needed.
Here is a markdown cheatsheet as a formatting reference. You can click on the "Preview" or "Preview changes" tab as needed to see the formatting rendered. To continue editing simply click back on the "<> Edit file" tab.
Save at the bottom of the page by making a commit (feel free to do this as needed).

Make a Pull Request

Go to the BICCN repo .
Click the "New pull request" button.
Click "compare across forks" Select your fork for your charter. Name and add (optional comment).
Click "Create pull request"
Done!