All of the below guidelines are just suggestions. They are not meant to create additional "red tape" during the normal development process. If you find they are getting in the way, let us know, we can always change them! Development processes and best practices change over time, and these guidelines should be no different.

By "Master" we are not only referring to DSpace/DSpace in GitHub. We're also referring to the "Master" branch of any other production-quality, out-of-the-box GitHub projects (e.g. DSpace/dspace-services, DSpace/dspace-api-lang, etc.)