Branching Governance and Conventions

Branching strategies establish consistent naming patterns and isolate active development from production-ready code.

In GitHub, long-lived default branches are protected from direct commits to preserve release stability.

Contributors must isolate changes in short-lived feature or bugfix branches adhering to standardized naming prefixes:

• feature/: Work supporting new capabilities, APIs, or major documentation updates.
• fix/: Targeted repairs for reported defects or incorrect guidance.
• docs/: Minor prose improvements, typo corrections, or maintenance.