When you are assigned an issue please follow the next steps:
### Divide a big feature into small Merge Requests
1. Big Merge Request are painful to review. In order to make this process easier we
must break a big feature into smaller ones and create a Merge Request for each step.
1. First step is to create a branch from `master`, let's call it `new-feature`. This branch
will be the recipient of all the smaller Merge Requests. Only this one will be merged to master.
1. Don't do any work on this one, let's keep it synced with master.
1. Create a new branch from `new-feature`, let's call it `new-feature-step-1`. We advise you
to clearly identify which step the branch represents.
1. Do the first part of the modifications in this branch. The target branch of this Merge Request
should be `new-feature`.
1. Once `new-feature-step-1` gets merged into `new-feature` we can continue our work. Create a new
branch from `new-feature`, let's call it `new-feature-step-2` and repeat the process done before.
```shell
* master
|\
| * new-feature
| |\
| | * new-feature-step-1
| |\
| | * new-feature-step-2
| |\
| | * new-feature-step-3
```
**Tips**
- Make sure `new-feature` branch is always synced with `master`: merge master frequently.
- Do the same for the feature branch you have opened. This can be accomplished by merging `master` into `new-feature` and `new-feature` into `new-feature-step-*`
- Avoid rewriting history.
### Share your work early
1. Before writing code guarantee your vision of the architecture is aligned with
GitLab's architecture.
1. Add a diagram to the issue and ask a Frontend Architecture about it.
1. Don't take more than one week between starting work on a feature and
sharing a Merge Request with a reviewer or a maintainer.
### Vue features
1. Follow the steps in [Vue.js Best Practices](vue.md)
1. Follow the style guide.
1. Only a handful of people are allowed to merge Vue related features.
