Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated!

Types of Contributions

Report Bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/zhiwei2017/pyckage-cookiecutter

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.

Fix Bugs

Look through the GitHub issues for bugs. Anything tagged with bug and help wanted is open to whoever wants to implement a fix for it.

Implement Features

Look through the GitHub issues for features. Anything tagged with enhancement and help wanted is open to whoever wants to implement it.

Write Documentation

Pyckage Cookiecutter could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official 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 an issue at https://github.com/zhiwei2017/pyckage-cookiecutter/issues.

If you are proposing a new feature:

  • Explain in detail how it would work.

  • Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.

Get Started!

Ready to contribute? Here’s how to set up pyckage-cookiecutter for local development. Please note this documentation assumes you already have virtualenv and git installed and ready to go.

  1. Fork the pyckage-cookiecutter repo on GitHub.

  2. Clone your fork locally:

    $ cd path_for_the_repo
    $ git clone git@github.com:YOUR_NAME/pyckage-cookiecutter.git
    
  3. Assuming you have virtualenv installed (If you have Python 3.6 this should already be there), you can create a new environment for your local development by typing:

    $ virtualenv pyckage-cookiecutter-venv
    $ source pyckage-cookiecutter-venv/bin/activate
    

    This should change the shell to look something like:

    (pyckage-cookiecutter-env) $
    
  4. Create a branch for local development:

    $ git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
    

    Now you can make your changes locally.

  5. When you’re done making changes, check that your changes pass all linting checks:

    $ make flake8
    $ make mypy
    $ make bandit
    
  6. The next step would be to run the test cases:

    $ make test
    
  7. Before raising a pull request you should also run tox. This will run the tests across different versions of Python:

    $ tox
    

    If you are missing flake8, bandit, mypy, pytest and/or tox, just pip install them into your virtual environment.

  8. If your contribution is a bug fix or new feature, you may want to add a test to the existing test suite. See section Add a New Test below for details.

  9. Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub:

    $ git add .
    $ git commit -m "Your detailed description of your changes."
    $ git push origin name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
    
  10. Submit a pull request through the GitHub website.

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

  1. The pull request should include tests.

  2. If the pull request adds functionality, the docs should be updated. Put your new functionality into a function with a docstring.

  3. The pull request should work for Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.

Add a New Test

When fixing a bug or adding features, it’s good practice to add a test to demonstrate your fix or new feature behaves as expected. These tests should focus on one tiny bit of functionality and prove changes are correct.

To write and run your new test, follow these steps:

  1. Add the new test to tests/test_bake_project.py. Focus your test on the specific bug or a small part of the new feature.

  2. Run your test and confirm that your test does not fail:

    $ make test
    
  3. Run the tests with tox to ensure that the code changes work with different Python versions:

    $ tox
    

Deploying

Assume that bump2version is installed. To deploy the package, just run:

$ bump2version patch  # possible: major / minor / patch
$ git push
$ git push --tags

Github Actions will do the rest.