joyent-portal/legacy/CONTRIBUTING.md
Sérgio Ramos 8295bd6882 chore: initial lerna setup
this shall be a progressive process
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## Development Workflow
### Small Feature Development
Contributors who have write access to the repository will practise continuous
delivery (CD as known from now on in this document).
We will define CD in this document as a method of developing a feature per commit
with an encapsulating test that proves that the functionality is working, the
contributor will test their code locally and if all is passing will push to *master*.
For contributors that do not have write access, follow the same conventions but
open a Pull Request instead.
### Large changesets
When larger changes need to be made, or the work that is carried out spans multiple
components / services of the application at the same time a single commit will
not suffice.
In this scenario, the contributor should open a pull request instead.
## Commit messages
Follow [Git blessed](http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/)
1. Separate subject from body with a blank line
2. Limit the subject line to 50 characters
3. Capitalize the subject line
4. Do not end the subject line with a period
5. Use the imperative mood in the subject line
6. Wrap the body at 72 characters
7. Use the body to explain what and why vs. how