Contributing to the GIAB Variant Calling Benchmark Set Generation and Evaluation Framework

This guide is a work in progress and meant to help development team formalize development process.

Steps for creating new milestones/ framework versions

Create new milestone with a brief high-level description for new functionality, improvements, bug fixes
Assign relevant issues to the milestone
Address issues on separate branches and merge onto the dev branch
create merge request onto master branch when ready to release branch, using milestone v#.### as merge request title - review, address comments or create new issues when relevant
Update CHANGELOG, copy change log text into milestone and merge request description
Close merge request
Create tag for milestone version (tag name: v#.###) including CHANGELOG text in release notes
Clean-up old branches