## Pre-pre requisite

- A working knowledge of MinIO codebase and its various components.
- A working knowledge of AWS S3 API behaviors and corner cases.

## Pre-requisite for backporting any fixes

Fixes that are allowed a backport must satisfy any of the following criteria's:

- A fix must not be a feature, for example.

```
commit faf013ec84051b92ae0f420a658b8d35bb7bb000
Author: Klaus Post <******@****.***>

lint: getdeps ## runs golangci-lint suite of linters
	@echo "Running $@ check"
	@$(GOLANGCI) run --build-tags kqueue --timeout=10m --config ./.golangci.yml

lint-fix: getdeps ## runs golangci-lint suite of linters with automatic fixes
	@echo "Running $@ check"
	@$(GOLANGCI) run --build-tags kqueue --timeout=10m --config ./.golangci.yml --fix

check: test
test: verifiers build build-debugging ## builds minio, runs linters, tests

in one of these ways:

    a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
    (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the
    Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium
    customarily used for software interchange.

    b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
    (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a