Contributing¶
Thank you for showing interes in contributing to Backgrounder. There are many ways you can help and contribute to the project.
- Try Backgrounder and report bugs and issues you find.
- Implement new features
- Help othes by reviewing pull requests
- Help writting documentation
- Use the discussions and actively participate on them.
- Become an contributor by helping Backgrounder growing and spread the words across small, medium, large or any company size.
Reporting possible bugs and issues¶
It is natural that you might find something that Backgrounder should support or even experience some sorte of unexpected behaviour that needs addressing.
The way we love doing things is very simple, contributions should start out with a discussion. The potential bugs shall be raised as "Potential Issue" in the discussions, the feature requests may be raised as "Ideas".
We can then decide if the discussion needs to be escalated into an "Issue" or not.
When reporting something you should always try to:
- Be as more descriptive as possible
- Provide as much evidence as you can, something like:
- OS platform
- Python version
- Installed dependencies
- Code snippets
- Tracebacks
Avoid putting examples extremely complex to understand and read. Simplify the examples as much as possible to make it clear to understand and get the required help.
Development¶
To develop for Backgrounder, create a fork of the Backgrounder repository on GitHub.
After, clone your fork with the follow command replacing YOUR-USERNAME
wih your GitHub username:
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/backgrounder
Install the project dependencies¶
$ cd backgrounder
$ scripts/install
Enable pre-commit¶
The project comes with a pre-commit hook configuration. To enable it, just run inside the clone:
$ pre-commit
Run the tests¶
To run the tests, use:
$ scripts/test
Because Backgrounder uses pytest, any additional arguments will be passed. More info within the pytest documentation
To run the linting, use:
$ scripts/lint
Documentation¶
Improving the documentation is quite easy and it is placed inside the backgrounder/docs
folder.
To start the docs, run:
$ scripts/docs
Building Backgrounder¶
To build a package locally, run:
$ scripts/build
Alternatively running:
$ scripts/install
It will install the requirements and create a local build in your virtual environment.
Releasing¶
This section is for the maintainers of Backgrounder
.
Building the Backgrounder for release¶
Before releasing a new package into production some considerations need to be taken into account.
-
Changelog
- Like many projects, we follow the format from keepchangelog.
- Compare
main
with the release tag and list of the entries that are of interest to the users of the framework.- What must go in the changelog? added, changed, removed or deprecated features and the bug fixes.
- What is should not go in the changelog? Documentation changes, tests or anything not specified in the point above.
- Make sure the order of the entries are sorted by importance.
- Keep it simple.
-
Version bump
- The version should be in
__init__.py
of the main package.
- The version should be in
Releasing¶
Once the release
PR is merged, create a new release
that includes:
Example:
There will be a release of the version 0.2.3
, this is what it should include.
- Release title:
Version 0.2.3
. - Tag:
0.2.3
. - The description should be copied from the changelog.
Once the release is created, it should automatically upload the new version to PyPI. If something
does not work with PyPI the release can be done by running scripts/release
.