If you find any content that requires modification or improvement while navigating through the Alibaba Cloud official documentation, you can follow the following steps to submit your suggestions on GitHub. If your suggestion is used by Alibaba Cloud, you will be credited as a contributor in the Alibaba Cloud documentation center for that document.

Prerequisites

  • The Alibaba Cloud documentation is open-source on GitHub, where you need to sign in to the GitHub account before edit and submit content. If you do not have a GitHub account, visit Join GitHub to register for an account.
  • Before editing and submitting content, please read and understand the our Open-Source Documentation Code of Conduct.

Background information

The document published by Alibaba Cloud is open-source in markdown format on GitHub.

Procedure

  1. To edit the contents of a document, just go to the document page and click the Edit button in the top right corner. This will open up the relevant document on GitHub, as described in the following figure.
    Figure 1. Editing Open-Source Documentation
  2. On the GitHub page, click the icon to enter the editor.
    The system will then create a branch, which contains a copy of the document that you can edit.
  3. Contents are edited in the Edit file tab, as shown in the following figure.
    You can click on Cancel at the top or bottom of the tab to cancel editing.
    Figure 2. Content editor
  4. You can view the changes in the Preview changes tab, as shown in the following figure.
    Figure 3. Preview changes
  5. Once you are happy with your changes, enter a description of the changes into the Propose file change tab, and click on Propose file change to submit your suggestions, as shown in the following figure.
    Figure 4. Submit suggestions

Result

Alibaba Cloud will review and process your suggestions in accordance with its Open-Source Documentation Code of Conduct.

Alibaba Cloud thanks you for your support and help!