## Contributing

Pull Requests from our design, development and operations teams of [Haufe.Group](http://www.haufe-lexware.com) and its subsidiaries are greatly appreciated. If you've never contributed to an open source project before we are more than happy to walk you through how to create a pull request.

The short version of it is to simply clone this repo (a) into a repo of your own account with (b) the name `[your_account_name].github.io` and (c) manually change the `url` parameter in `_config.xml` to `http://[your_account_name].github.io`. Commit your changes and a couple of seconds later you should find the blog published on the above configured url. Now you can add your changes and test them live after each commit. 

**Do not submit your _config.yml file as part of the pull request.** The easiest way to do that is by reverting your changes in `_config.yml` and pushing it to your repo once you are ready to create a pull request. The easiest way to do so is to use a tool like (SourceTree)[https://www.sourcetreeapp.com], right-click on `_config.yml` and select revert changes. You wll not neet to commit anything but you do need to push it up to your github repo.

Support for Categories and Tags were inspired by [this blog entry](http://www.minddust.com/post/tags-and-categories-on-github-pages/). A list of the defined categories and tags can be found at `_data/categories.yml` and `_data\tags.yml` respectively. If you want to add new categories or tags, you need to add them to the corresponding `.yml` file and add the matching template into the `meta/category` or `meta/tag` directories. Please do not go overboard with adding new categories and tags but try to stay within the ones we have. On the other hand - if you feel strongly about adding one, feel free to submit a pull request.

If you want to find out more about using `github-pages` for blogging or want to improve our blog the following links might be good starting points
* [Jekyll documentation, i.e. how to include images](http://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/)
* [Github pages powered by Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/wiki/sites)

Please note to set the proxy if you are working from within the Haufe Intranet

    set HTTP_PROXY=http://10.12.1.236:8083/
    set HTTPS_PROXY=http://10.12.1.236:8083/

If you find bugs or issues you can [open an issue](https://github.com/Haufe-Lexware/Haufe-Lexware.github.io/issues/new) describing the problem that you're looking to resolve and we'll go from there.