Contributing¶
Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.
You can contribute in many ways:
Types of Contributions¶
Report Bugs¶
Report bugs as a new issue.
If you are reporting a bug, please include:
Your operating system name and version.
Any details about your local setup that might be helpful in troubleshooting.
Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.
Write Documentation¶
Magpie could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official Magpie docs, in docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts, articles, and such.
Submit Feedback¶
The best way to send feedback is to file a new issue.
If you are proposing a feature:
Explain in detail how it would work.
Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that contributions are welcome :)
Provide utilities¶
If you made a convenient CLI utility or tool that works conjointly with Magpie in other to provide useful features or simply provide ease-of-life, don’t hesitate to open a PR referring to it in the documentation Utilities. We love sharing and avoiding to rewrite stuff.
Get Started!¶
Ready to contribute? Here’s how to set up magpie for local development.
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Ouranosinc/Magpie
Install your local copy (see Installation)
When you’re done making changes, check that your changes pass code formatting and tests:
make check make test
Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub.
Submit a pull request to the author (tests will run to evaluate that everything still works).
Pull Request Guidelines¶
Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:
The pull request should include tests.
If the pull request adds functionality, the docs should be updated. Put your new functionality into a function with a docstring, and add the feature to the list in CHANGES (under relevant category of section Unreleased).
The tests should work for the specified version of Python for this project.
Tips¶
To run a subset of tests:
make SPEC="<CUSTOM TEST SPECIFICATIONS>" test-custom
With <CUSTOM TEST SPECIFICATIONS>
being any predefined markers, specific test classes or functions as supported
by pytest
runner.