source: Developing/Merging-Pull-Requests.md
# Merging Pull Requests

### GitHub
We will now build the monthly change log from our GitHub commits. When merging a commit, please 
ensure you:

  - Click the `Merge pull request` button
  - Give the merge a descriptive but short title
  - For the commit message prepend it with one of the following tags for the pull request to appear in the changelog:
    - devices: or newdevice: For new device support.
    - feature: or feat: To indicate this is a new or updated feature
    - webui: or web: To indicate this is an update to the WebUI
    - fix: or bugfix: To show this is a bug fix.
    - refactoring: or refactor: When the changes are refactoring a large portion of code
  - You can reference an issue number with `#xyz`, i.e `#1234`
  - Use the `Confirm squash and merge` button to merge.

### Example commits

#### Feature

feature: Added new availability map #4401

#### New device

newdevice: Added support for Cisco ASA #4402