Open collaborative writing with Manubot
Fig 1
Any reader can contribute to a Manubot manuscript by proposing a change through a pull request. This example involves three people: a manuscript Maintainer, an existing project Contributor, and an additional Participant in the discussion. Manuscript text is shown in solid lines on the left of the timeline and discussion on GitHub is shown by squiggly lines to the right of the timeline. The Contributor opens a GitHub issue to discuss a manuscript modification. The Maintainer and the Participant provide feedback in the issue, and the Maintainer recommends creating a GitHub pull request to update the text. The Contributor creates the pull request. It is reviewed by the Maintainer and the Participant, and the Contributor updates the pull request in response. Once the pull request is approved, the Maintainer merges the changes into the official version of the manuscript.