Some basic conventions for contributing to this project.
Please make sure that there aren't existing pull requests attempting to address the issue mentioned. Likewise, please check for issues related to update, as someone else may be working on the issue in a branch or fork.
- Non-trivial changes should be discussed in an issue first
- Develop in a topic branch, not master
- Squash your commits
Branch naming conventions
- Use grouping tokens (words) at the beginning of your branch names.
- Define and use short lead tokens to differentiate branches in a way that is meaningful to your workflow.
- Use slashes to separate parts of your branch names.
- Do not use bare numbers as leading parts.
- Avoid long descriptive names for long-lived branches.
Short well-defined tokens
Choose short tokens so they do not add too much noise to every one of your branch names.
wip Works in progress; stuff we know won't be finished soon
feat Feature I'm adding or expanding
bug Bug fix or experiment
junk Throwaway branch created to experiment
Please be watchful of linting errors before committing code.
Each commit message should include a type, a scope and a subject:
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
Lines should not exceed 100 characters. This allows the message to be easier to read on github as well as in various git tools and produces a nice, neat commit log ie:
#271 feat(standard): add style config and refactor to match
#270 fix(config): only override publicPath when served by webpack
#269 feat(eslint-config-defaults): replace eslint-config-airbnb
#268 feat(config): allow user to configure webpack stats output
Must be one of the following:
- feat: A new feature
- fix: A bug fix
- docs: Documentation only changes
- style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
- refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug or adds a feature
- test: Adding missing tests
- chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
The scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change. For example webpack
,
babel
, redux
etc...
The subject contains succinct description of the change:
- use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
- don't capitalize first letter
- no dot (.) at the end