How to Contribute Your Own Code

First of all, thank you for taking the time to even look to see how to help contribute to Hotcakes Commerce. Anything you provide will help us all to grow our respective customers and businesses.

Here are the general steps to contributing to the Hotcakes Commerce project. If you wish for your updates to be included in a future release, it's very important that you follow these steps.

1. Fork the project to your own GitHub account.
2. Find or create an Issue to work on.
3. Create a branch based on the upstream\Development branch. Ideally, you should name the branch something that resembles the Issue. For example: Issues\Issue-12345
4. Perform your work to fully resolve the Issue. Your work should include code comments, documentation, and localization when possible. You should perform as much of your own QA testing as possible.
5. Create a pull request. (Almost always to the development branch.)
6. STOP working on that branch.
7. Once your pull request is accepted, DELETE the branch.