# Contributing

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.

## Pull Request Process

1. Fork this project into your account if you are a first-time contributor.
1. Create a branch based on the latest `dev` branch, commit your changes on this branch.
1. You may merge the Pull Request in once you have the sign-off of two other developers, or if you do not have permission to do that, you may request the second reviewer to merge it for you.

## Release Process

1. Create a release branch from the target commit on dev branch.
1. Update version in [galaxy.yml](galaxy.yml) and release logs in [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
1. Make sure the release branch is ready to release, merge the release branch into master branch.
1. Tag the master branch with new version number like `v*.*.*`, push to origin.
1. Release pipleline will automatically release the new version to galaxy.
1. Merge released changes back to `dev` branch.

## Release status

For each release details, you can refer to the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) which contains the dates and significant changes in each minor release.