CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribution

First off, thank you for taking the time to prepare a contribution to Score-P!

Contribution Flow for gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de

1. Create an issue

   1. Assign yourself to the issue

2. Work on your contribution

   1. Best practice on creating a commit series

      https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/key-points-of-refactoring/

   2. Best practice on writing good commit messages

      https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

3. Create a branch referencing the issue in the branch name <#issue>-<branch-name>

   1. Assign yourself to the merge request
   2. Check Conformity section in the merge request description, assignee is responsible to keep these up-to-date
   3. Check the pipeline result in the comments from @swat_ci_connector, it reads something like

      cafebabe triggered CI/CD pipeline #12345 - PASS

   4. After approval, ensure branch is rebased onto target branch and signal ready state by adding the ~ready label