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A11Y: Improve select-kit accessibility (take 2) (#21530)
Same as #214500 but fixes an issue with mobile navigation in some cases.
2023-05-16 09:57:50 -04:00
.devcontainer DEV: Replace postCreateCommand with postStartCommand (#16665) 2022-05-05 23:52:35 +02:00
.github DEV: Clean up workflow files (#21526) 2023-05-12 14:00:04 +02:00
.vscode-sample DEV: Move vscode config files to `.vscode-sample` directory (#11943) 2021-02-03 14:14:39 +00:00
app A11Y: Improve select-kit accessibility (take 2) (#21530) 2023-05-16 09:57:50 -04:00
bin DEV: Add yarn-app shim to run yarn using the app modules (#20983) 2023-04-05 13:12:58 -05:00
config FEATURE: Fuzzy search in site settings and raise limit to 100 matches (#21572) 2023-05-16 18:23:05 +10:00
db FEATURE: Enable user tips by default (#21341) 2023-05-08 20:33:08 +03:00
docs DEV: Minor copyedit in ADMIN-QUICK-START-GUIDE.md (#21528) 2023-05-12 13:58:55 +02:00
documentation DEV: Fix random typos (#20937) 2023-04-03 19:27:32 +02:00
images Replace README logo with PNG (#14044) 2021-08-13 14:23:49 -04:00
lib FIX: Add new chat threads icon and move thread list button to right (#21575) 2023-05-16 11:48:01 +02:00
log Initial release of Discourse 2013-02-05 14:16:51 -05:00
plugins FIX: Don't show duplicates in styleguide (#21582) 2023-05-16 09:27:15 -04:00
public UX: Various improvements to welcome topic CTA (#21010) 2023-05-12 17:09:40 +03:00
script DEV: Remove `RUBY_GLOBAL_METHOD_CACHE_SIZE` (#21249) 2023-04-26 10:39:39 +02:00
spec FIX: Miscellaneous tagging errors (#21490) 2023-05-15 17:19:41 -03:00
test DEV: Set QUnit per-test timeout (#21102) 2023-04-15 14:34:13 +02:00
vendor FIX: Add new chat threads icon and move thread list button to right (#21575) 2023-05-16 11:48:01 +02:00
.editorconfig DEV: Update .editorconfig to match new hbs rules (#19816) 2023-01-10 16:21:16 +01:00
.eslintignore DEV: Chat service object initial implementation (#19814) 2023-02-13 13:09:57 +01:00
.eslintrc DEV: Await for all async MessageBus callbacks (#17966) 2022-08-17 12:44:48 +02:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs DEV: Add recent formatting commits to `.git-blame-ignore-revs` (#19799) 2023-01-09 14:51:48 +00:00
.gitattributes Use proper encoding for email fixtures. 2018-02-21 17:06:35 +08:00
.gitignore DEV: Setup lint to the future (#20990) 2023-04-06 17:25:01 +01:00
.jsdoc DEV: Chat service object initial implementation (#19814) 2023-02-13 13:09:57 +01:00
.licensed.yml Build(deps): Bump nio4r from 2.5.8 to 2.5.9 (#20947) 2023-04-04 02:28:29 +02:00
.licensee.json Revert "DEV: Merge package.json files (#21172)" (#21182) 2023-04-20 14:57:40 +02:00
.npmrc DEV: Prevent npm usage (#13945) 2021-08-04 22:04:58 +02:00
.prettierignore DEV: Chat service object initial implementation (#19814) 2023-02-13 13:09:57 +01:00
.prettierrc DEV: upgrades dev config (#10588) 2020-09-04 13:33:03 +02:00
.rspec Add RSpec 4 compatibility (#17652) 2022-07-28 10:27:38 +08:00
.rspec_parallel DEV: Introduce parallel rspec testing 2019-04-01 11:06:47 -04:00
.rubocop.yml DEV: Enable `unless` cops 2023-02-21 10:30:48 +01:00
.ruby-gemset.sample rvm has offically depreicated .rvmrc and recommends using .ruby-version and .ruby-gemset instead. 2013-05-23 09:16:11 -07:00
.ruby-version.sample DEV: Update recommended Ruby to 3.2.1 (#20444) 2023-02-24 12:51:34 -03:00
.streerc DEV: Apply syntax_tree formatting to `app/*` 2023-01-09 14:14:59 +00:00
.template-lintrc.js REFACTOR: user directories without `<table>`, second attempt (#20515) 2023-03-02 15:10:19 -05:00
Brewfile DEV: enable frozen string literal on all files 2019-05-13 09:31:32 +08:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Proper long form for CLA 2015-09-10 20:49:03 +02:00
COPYRIGHT.md DEV: Absorb onebox gem into core (#12979) 2021-05-26 15:11:35 +05:30
Gemfile PERF: Use `OpenSSL::KDF` for Pbkdf2 implementation (#20982) 2023-04-05 17:00:05 +01:00
Gemfile.lock Build(deps): Bump nokogiri from 1.14.4 to 1.15.0 (#21567) 2023-05-16 11:25:23 +02:00
LICENSE.txt DEV: Absorb onebox gem into core (#12979) 2021-05-26 15:11:35 +05:30
README.md DEV: Update recommended Ruby to 3.2.1 (#20444) 2023-02-24 12:51:34 -03:00
Rakefile FIX: Do not dump schema during production database migrations (#12785) 2021-04-21 16:26:20 +01:00
config.ru DEV: enable frozen string literal on all files 2019-05-13 09:31:32 +08:00
d add wrappers for mailcatcher and sidekiq 2016-12-13 09:05:45 +11:00
discourse.sublime-project DEV: Exclude i18n .yml files from Sublime Text project. (#6473) 2018-10-10 20:21:24 +08:00
jsconfig.base.json DEV: Add more excludes to jsconfig (#17975) 2022-08-17 21:51:40 +02:00
lefthook.yml DEV: Add syntax_tree check to lefthook (#19877) 2023-01-17 10:16:07 +10:00
package.json DEV: Bump eslint-config version (#21325) 2023-05-02 09:17:52 -05:00
translator.yml DEV: Add labels for plugin locale files (#19664) 2022-12-31 00:37:15 +01:00
yarn.lock DEV: Update yarn.lock (#21337) 2023-05-02 16:07:10 +01:00

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