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 # Contributing to ORMB
+
+Thank you for contributing your time and expertise to ORMB. This document describes the contribution guidelines for the project.
+
+## Contributing to ORMB code
+
+### Commit Conventions
+
+Below we describe commit message conventions.
+
+#### Goals
+
+* improve repository maintainability
+* provide better history information
+* allow auto-generating CHANGELOG.md
+* allow ignoring commits by git bisect (e.g. not important commits like formatting)
+
+#### Format of commit message
+
+```
+<type>(<scope>): <subject>
+<BLANK LINE>
+<body>
+<BLANK LINE>
+```
+
+##### `<type>` (required)
+
+Type is required to better capture the area of the commit. Must be one of the following:
+
+* **feat**: A new feature
+* **fix**: A bug fix
+* **docs**: Documentation only changes
+* **style**: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
+* **refactor**: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
+* **perf**: A code change that improves performance
+* **test**: Adding missing or correcting existing tests
+* **chore**: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
+
+##### `<scope>` (optional)
+
+Scope is optional, it is could be anything specifying place of the commit change. Github issue link is
+also a valid scope. For example: fix(cli), feat(api), fix(#101), etc.
+
+You can use `*` when the change affects more than a single scope.
+
+##### `<subject>` (required)
+
+Subject line contains succinct description of the change.
+
+* be descriptive, e.g. "fix(controller): fix incorrect image name causing image pull error", not "fix small bug"
+* use imperative, present tense: “change” not “changed” nor “changes”
+* don't capitalize first letter
+* no dot (.) at the end
+
+##### `<body>` (optional)
+
+Body messge is optional, it should provide detailed desciption for large change
+
+* use imperative, present tense: “change” not “changed” nor “changes”
+* includes motivation for the change and contrasts with previous behavior
+
+## Examples
+
+```
+docs(golang): reword golang getting started guide
+```
+
+```
+feat(#121): set failure status for worker job
+
+Failure status for worker job is not set, possible statuses are: Accepted, Running, Failed.
+```
+
+```
+fix(apidocs): show api docs url by default
+```