Maintain the Design Kit
This guide is for the technical, accessibility and design reviewers, and the core team who merge and publish. If you're submitting a component, read contribute to the Design Kit instead.
Review pull requests
Review within [X working days]. Each of the three reviewers — technical, accessibility and design — approves or requests changes in GitHub, and explains what needs to change and why.
If a contributor cannot do the rework themselves, agree who will and note it on the pull request.
Merge, publish and announce
When a pull request has all three approvals:
- Merge it.
- Release a new version.
- Check the kit site has updated.
- Post in #iai-design-kit.
Look for components worth sharing
Every 2 weeks, check product repos for components built locally. Check them against the component criteria. If one qualifies, open a pull request for it yourself, or ask the team that built it to.
Pay down kit debt
Every quarter, a named person from design and a named person from frontend spend time on:
- components added below standard
- missing or out-of-date guidance
- changes from GOV.UK Frontend
- promoting experimental components to standard
- deprecations