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# Contributing
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- [Code Of Conduct](#code-of-conduct)
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- [Submission Guidelines](#submission-guidelines)
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- [Commit Message Guidelines](#commit-message-guidelines)
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## Code Of Conduct
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As contributors and maintainers of the project, we pledge to respect everyone who contributes by posting issues,
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updating documentation, submitting pull requests, providing feedback in comments and any other associated project
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activities.
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### Principles
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- Be constructive
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- Be positive
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- Be respectful
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- Be courtesy
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- Be honest
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- Be trustworthy
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- Never resort to personal attacks
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- Never troll
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- Never publicly or privately harass
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- Never insult
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### Violations
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If a community member associated to the project violates this code of conduct, the maintainers of the project may take
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appropriate actions as deemed necessary. Such actions maybe but not limited to, removing issues, comments, public
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relations and/or blocking accounts.
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### Feedback
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If you are subject to or witness of unacceptable behavior or have any other
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concerns, please contact us.
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## Submission Guidelines
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### Submitting An Issue
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- All issues must be submitted using GitLab issues.
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- Search first before creating an issue.
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- Preview the issue to ensure it is rendering as intended.
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- Be as descriptive as possible.
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- Provide steps required to re-produce.
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- Utilize the provided form fields.
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- Attach necessary reference documents (error messages, screenshots, sample
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data, logs, etc.).
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- **Do Not** submit or reply to an issue outside of GitLab.
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- **Do Not** submit multiple issues within one submission.
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- **Do Not** duplicate an issue.
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### Commenting On A Issue
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- **Do Not** comment on a issue outside of GitLab.
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- Stay on topic per the issue description.
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### Issue Closure
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Valid reasons for closing an issue:
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- Duplicate issue.
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- A reference to the duplicate must be added before closure.
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- Lacks enough information to re-produce.
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- No longer relevant.
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- Off topic.
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- Resolved.
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- Multiple issues within the submission.
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- Will not be resolved.
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- Provide a reason that this issue will not be resolved.
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### Issue Re-Opening
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- Reasons for re-opening:
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- Issue has not been resolved.
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- A detailed comment is required.
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- **Do Not** re-open an issue that was closed more than 2 months ago. Instead
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Create a new issue.
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## Commit Message Guidelines
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Git commit messages must adhere to a specific format. This is done to ensure
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good communication, consistency and readability.
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### Commit Message Format
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Each commit message consists of three properties as shown below.
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Property | Sub-Property | Character Limit | Mandatory
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---------|---------------|-----------------|----------
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header | type, subject | 100 | True
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body | | 100 | False
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footer | | 100 | False
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Structure
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```
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<type>: <subject>
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<BLANK LINE>
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<body>
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<BLANK LINE>
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<footer>
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```
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#### Type
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Use one of the following applicable type.
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- build
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- Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies.
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- ci
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- Changes continuous integration (CI) configuration files and scripts.
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- docs
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- Documentation only changes.
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- feat
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- A new feature.
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- fix
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- A bug fix.
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- perf
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- A code change that improves performance.
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- refactor
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- A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature.
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- revert
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- When commit reverts a previous commit.
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- style
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- Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc.).
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- test
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- Adding or modifying tests.
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#### Subject
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- Be concise description of the change.
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- Use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes".
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- Do not capitalize the first letter.
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- No period/dot (.) at the end.
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#### Body
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- Use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes".
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- Include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous
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behavior.
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- If commit type is **revert**, in the body state `This reverts commit <hash>`.
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The `<hash>` is the hash value of the commit being reverted.
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#### Footer
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- Reference GitLab issue(s) that the commit closes.
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- State breaking changes.
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- Breaking changes start with **BREAKING CHANGE:** with a space or two
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newlines. Following is the description of change, motivation for change and migration notes.
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