6. How to Contribute

Contribution Guidelines

The BDA Team uses a Fork / Branch Workflow. If you would like to contribute to the project please use the following guides

• https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

• https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork/

Branches

• master - "production" branch, the latest release
• support - used for bug fixes in between releases
• dev - where a majority of development work is done, finished code from feature_xxx branches are merged here
• feature_<feature description> - It is preferred that any major changes use have their own separate branch. This should be a branch from dev

Pull Requests

• We only accept Pull Request to the dev branch
• Pull requests to the support branch are reserved for critical bug fixes in between releases
• Please reference issue numbers where applicable