.. _final-merge:

Merging your development work into the main branch
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Only the maintainer group can merge changes into the main branch. 
They meet once per week and will merge all changes which meet the
following requirements: 

Checklist for maintainer group
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* Your branch is up to date with the current |ece4| main branch. This is required to avoid conflicts in the merge. It is therefore good practice to merge or rebase your branch with the main branch regularly (see :ref:`sync-with-main`).  
* Merge request must not be "Draft" 
* If you have also changed a submodule, e.g. NEMO, that work has to already be merged or clearly stated that it can be merged at the same time.  
* All discussion threads must be resolved. 
* Your work must be briefly described in the file ``CHANGES.md`` in the |ece4| repository. 
* MR must be approved by two people from different institutes (cannot be yourself). 
* If needed, you may be requested to also update the EC-Earth documentation.