a clear, valuable commit history for our open-source projects. They apply to all contributors, 
fostering efficient reviews and robust code.

## Why Pull Requests?

Pull Requests (PRs) drive quality in MinIO’s codebase by:
- Enabling peer review without pair programming.
- Documenting changes for future reference.
- Ensuring commits tell a clear story of development.

**A poor commit lasts forever, even if code is refactored.**

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# MinIO Batch Job
MinIO Batch jobs is an MinIO object management feature that lets you manage objects at scale. Jobs currently supported by MinIO

- Replicate objects between buckets on multiple sites

Upcoming Jobs

- Copy objects from NAS to MinIO
- Copy objects from HDFS to MinIO

## Replication Job
To perform replication via batch jobs, you create a job. The job consists of a job description YAML that describes

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   * Collections2#transform} or {@link Iterables#transform}.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> serializing the returned list is implemented by serializing {@code fromList},
   * its contents, and {@code function} -- <i>not</i> by serializing the transformed values. This
   * can lead to surprising behavior, so serializing the returned list is <b>not recommended</b>.

**Note:**

* Location of custom certs directory can be specified using `--certs-dir` command line option.
* Inside the `certs` directory, the private key must by named `private.key` and the public key must be named `public.crt`.
* A certificate signed by a CA contains information about the issued identity (e.g. name, expiry, public key) and any intermediate certificates. The root CA is not included.

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