chore: Add guidelines around conventional commits to docs.

Updated README and CONTRIBUTING docs to include guidelines around conventional commits.

Author: David Hayes

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -10,3 +10,15 @@ We welcome any contributions that can help make this a more useful repository in
 - Documentation improvements
 - Creating issues for bugs and participating when the solution/fix needs to be tested
 - Pull Requests for features, fixes, etc.
+
+## Formatting Commit Messages
+
+This repository uses conventional commits to format commit messages.  This allows us to automatically generate changelogs and release notes.  Please see [this link](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) for more information on how to format your commit messages.
+
+Specifically, we use the following format:
+
+- `feat: <description>` for new features
+- `fix: <description>` for bug fixes
+- `chore: <description>` for changes that don't affect the codebase
+
+One of those should be the first line in your commit message. If you need to add more detail, you can add a blank line and then add more detail.

README.md

@@ -71,3 +71,5 @@ If you create a logger with the log level `error`, it will only log messages tha
 ## Local development
 
 To work on this locally, clone it and run `npm install`. You should be good to go.
+
+Be sure to read CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on contributing to this repo.