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The title of the pull request should be prefixed by the component or area that
the pull request affects. Valid areas as:
- - *Consensus* for changes to consensus critical code
- - *Doc* for changes to the documentation
- - *Qt* for changes to bitcoin-qt
- - *Log* Changes to log messages
- - *Mining* for changes to the mining code
- - *Net* or *P2P* for changes to the peer-to-peer network code
- - *Refactor* for structural changes that do not change behavior
- - *RPC/REST/ZMQ* for changes to the RPC, REST or ZMQ APIs
- - *Scripts and tools* for changes to the scripts and tools
- - *Test* for changes to the bitcoin unit tests or QA tests
- - *Utils and libraries* for changes to the utils and libraries
- - *Wallet* for changes to the wallet code
+ - `consensus` for changes to consensus critical code
+ - `doc` for changes to the documentation
+ - `qt` or `gui` for changes to bitcoin-qt
+ - `log` for changes to log messages
+ - `mining` for changes to the mining code
+ - `net` or `p2p` for changes to the peer-to-peer network code
+ - `refactor` for structural changes that do not change behavior
+ - `rpc`, `rest` or `zmq` for changes to the RPC, REST or ZMQ APIs
+ - `script` for changes to the scripts and tools
+ - `test` for changes to the bitcoin unit tests or QA tests
+ - `util` or `lib` for changes to the utils or libraries
+ - `wallet` for changes to the wallet code
+ - `build` for changes to the GNU Autotools, reproducible builds or CI code
Examples:
- Consensus: Add new opcode for BIP-XXXX OP_CHECKAWESOMESIG
- Net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor
- Qt: Add feed bump button
- Log: Fix typo in log message
+ consensus: Add new opcode for BIP-XXXX OP_CHECKAWESOMESIG
+ net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor
+ qt: Add feed bump button
+ log: Fix typo in log message
Note that translations should not be submitted as pull requests, please see
[Translation Process](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/translation_process.md)