Please read this before making edits to the openbmc base registry. Messages in this registry are intended to be generally useful across OpenBMC systems. To that end, there are a number of guidelines needed for messages in this file to remain useful across systems. 1. Messages should not be specific to a piece or type of hardware. Generally this involves not using terms like "CPU", "Drive", "Backplane", etc in the message strings, unless that behavior is specific to that particular piece of hardware. Incorrect: MemoryOverheated Correct: DeviceOverheated Correct: MemoryECCError (ECC is specific to memory, therefore class specific is acceptable) 2. Messages should not use any proprietary, copyright, or company-specific terms. In general, messages should prefer the industry accepted term. 3. Message strings should be human readable, and read like a normal sentence. This generally involves placing the substitution parameters in the appropriate place in the string. Incorrect: "An error occurred. Device: %1" Correct: "An error occurred on device %1". 4. Message registry versioning semantics shall be obeyed. Adding new messages require an increment to the subminor revision. Changes to existing messages require an increment to the patch version. If the copyright year is different than the current date, increment it when the version is changed. 5. If you are changing this in your own downstream company-specific fork, please change the "id" field below away from "OpenBMC.0.X.X" to something of the form of "CompanyName.0.X.X". This is to ensure that when a system is found in industry that has modified this registry, it can be differentiated from the OpenBMC project maintained registry.