Procedure for Contributing

If contributing as a community member, complete the following steps.

1. If the ticket does not exist, create a JIRA ticket on https://tools.codice.org/jira/ to track changes being made.
2. Fork the DDF code on GitHub.
3. Clone the forked DDF.
4. Create a feature branch in the forked DDF.
5. Make changes. Use the JIRA ticket number in the commit message (For example DDF-1000 fixed something). See Git Commit Message Guidelines for more details.

6. Add the remote repository to clone: 

   git remote add codice-ddf https://github.com/codice/ddf.git

    

7. Fetch the code from the master Codice/DDF repository:

   git fetch codice-ddf

    

8. Rebase the changes onto the latest commit from Codice/DDF's master branch:

   git rebase codice-ddf/master

    

9. Create a pull request in GitHub to pull changes from the fork into Codice/DDF's master branch.
   1. Fill out the pull request template
   2. Check the appropriate boxes in the template
   3. @mention individual reviewers and/or a team in the description.
10. Ensure Continuous Integration indicates that the PR will not cause any regressions (test failures).
11. When the review is ready @ddf-committers to request a merge
    1. If a committer has given a thumbs-down the PR may not be merged until the issue is resolved