Remove unused contribution files for Docs - GitLab (!249035) · Merge requests · GitLab.org / GitLab

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The docs site intentionally doesn't translate the Contribute (/development/) docs. Originally, we decided to copy all the development content with only front-matter intact for Japanese under this issue: MVC to hide "Contribute" pages and navigation in Japanese localized docs site. However, the with time, a lot of these development pages are constantly moved, deleted or more pages are created, so this initial MVC doesn't work anymore.

With the Merge Request in place: Derive localized /development pages from English sources, we've now successfully removed the dependency on having any of the /development or contribution files in the /doc-locale directory. Removing the complete directory from the /ja-jp side. There's currently no other /development files in /fr-fr or /ko-kr , so we can safely ignore these two directories.

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References

gitlab-com/localization/docs-site-localization#998 (closed)

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Essentially we can follow the exact same steps derived here: gitlab-org/technical-writing/docs-gitlab-com!2501 (merged), but specifically focus only on the /development files located under https://docs.gitlab.com/development/contributing/. There will be separate MRs for other projects (Omnibus, Operator, Runner and Charts)

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Edited Aug 06, 2026 by Rasam Hossain

Remove unused contribution files for Docs - GitLab

What does this MR do and why?

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How to set up and validate locally

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