Submitting fixes, improvements and awesome new features

The primary mechanism for submitting changes to the codebase is via GitHub Pull Requests. The recommended practice for doing this is as follows:

1. Fork and clone the primary Preside repository (see Building Preside locally for further instructions)

2. For each new bug / feature or improvement you wish to make, create a new branch forked from the branch named "stable". If you are working against a ticket in JIRA, include the issue number in the branch name. For example:

   /preside> git checkout -b PRESIDECMS-266_awesomenewfeature stable 

3. Make your changes and commit to your local clone and push to your GitHub fork, remember to include the JIRA issue number in your commit messages.

4. When you're ready, visit your branch in GitHub and make a Pull Request from your new branch to the Preside stable branch.

After a pull request has been made, it will be reviewed and we may ask you to make ammendments. At this point, all you need to do is make those changes in your new feature branch and push them back to your fork in GitHub - the changes will automatically make it into the Pull Request.

When we're all happy with the request, we'll manually merge it into the primary repository ready for the upcoming release (see Our git branching model and release strategy).