Merge pull request #75 from zowe/messageManagement

Added Message Management for Message Guidance

process/messageManagement.md

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+# Message Management
+
+### Message ID Components (message prefixes)
+OMP
+ZWE
+
+### Zowe Components
+A - API Mediation Layer
+C - Zowe CLI
+D - Zowe Desktop
+E - Zowe Explorer
+S - Zowe System Services
+
+### Message Formats
+ZWEcnnnnt where:
+
+**ZWE** - static for Zowe messages.
+
+**c** - one of the registered Components ... (see above).  Components need the ZLC to approve the use of the component to ensure consistency across all of the projects.
+
+**nnnn** - is a linear sequence starting from 0001 to 9999.  Projects may choose to use the first digit to divide the number space.  **
+
+**t** - is a Type.  One of (I, E, A, W)  General conventions by IBM are **I**nform, **E**ventual Action (often construed as error), **A**ction, **W**arning or **S**evere error
+
+Messages should be sent to the doc-team and follow the general IBM format as described in Messages and Codes.