10 Contributing

We follow Git Merge based workflow

1. Fork this repo
2. Create a new feature branch in your fork. Multiple features must have a hyphen separated name
3. Commit to your fork and raise a Pull Request with upstream

Code Style

• To maintain a consistent code style maven checkstyle plugin is used : reference link
• To inspect, analyze the code to remove common programming defects, inculcate programming best practices PMD is being used : reference link
• The following maven command is used to generate PMD, checkstyle and Copy/Paste Detector (CPD) reports in ./target/site folder
  mvn checkstyle:checkstyle pmd:pmd pmd:cpd
• To resolve checkstyle issues faster please install any of the following plugins in the IDE like IntelliJ
  • google-java-format : link
  • CheckStyle-IDEA : link

About commit message

Git commit command is used to save the changes done in the local repository after staging in git. To add the files in staging

git add <file>

To commit the file

git commit -m "<subject>" -m "<description>"

Commit subject

• The commit subject could be no more than 50 characters
• To maintain consistent commit messages, the subject could be in imperative tone or as a verb. Example : Change query rather than Changes made in the query, Changed the query
  This could also reduce the size of subject
• Could contain one of [feat, fix, style, refactor, test, docs, chore]

Commit description

• Could be detailed to explain the changes made but no more than 72 characters
• Punctuation could be omitted at the end of commit description
• Could also reference an issue or pull request