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+### Submitting an Issue
+Before you submit your issue please search the issue archive
+
+If your issue appears to be a bug, providing the following information will increase the chances of your issue being dealt with quickly:
+
+Overview of the Issue - if an error is being thrown a non-minified stack trace helps
+Motivation for or Use Case - explain why this is a bug for you
+Browsers and Operating System - is this a problem with all browsers or only specific ones?
+Reproduce the Error - provide a live example
+Related Issues - has a similar issue been reported before?
+
+### Submitting a Pull Request
+Testing
+Ensure every new module has sufficient testing in place, ideally aiming for 100% coverage where possible.
+
+Where appropriate (i.e. new features) there should also be a new e2e example created
+
+On submitting a PR all unit, integration and e2e tests will run. If a failure occurs your PR will not be approved.
+
+Commit messages
+When committing please follow the set convention below:
+
+feat: A new feature
+fix: A bug fix
+docs: Documentation only changes
+style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
+refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
+perf: A code change that improves performance
+test: Adding missing or correcting existing tests
+chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
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+Aye Spy uses an auto publishing feature that uses this commit convention to work out the bump version.
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