Developer best practices

To streamline code reviews and deployments for their team, it is strongly recommended that all developers on the VIP Platform use the GitHub pull request flow.

The infrastructure of the VIP Platform is built to support a “Code moves up; content moves down” development workflow (e.g. develop → production for code development).

Commit messages are one of the most common ways that developers communicate with each other. As part of the GitHub flow, it is important that commit messages are informative and clearly written.

Changesets are the heart of any version control system, and making good changesets is important to the maintainability of a codebase.

Code review from other internal team members is a valuable part of the development workflow. By following these guidelines, reviews and feedback can be more quickly received, and a pull request can be more quickly approved.

The WordPress.org open source community is comprised of talented individuals around the world. This community is always interested in receiving additional help from new contributors. Developers who support enterprise sites on the VIP Platform can lend a unique voice to WordPress that helps improve the project for all.