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 at taperable-helix issues

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 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

taperable_helix could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official taperable_helix 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 taperable-helix issues

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 :)

Get Started!

Ready to contribute? Here’s how to set up taperable-helix for local development.

  1. Fork the taperable_helix repo on GitHub.

  2. Clone your fork locally:

git clone git@github.com:your_name_here/taperable_helix.git

  1. Instantiate an (virtual) enviorment which supports python3.7, isort, black, flake8 and bump2version. Using make install-dev will install appropriate development dependencies:

<instantiate your virtual environment if necessary>
cd taperable_helix/
make install-dev

  1. Create a branch for local development:

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

Now you can make your changes locally.

  1. When you’re done making changes, check that your changes are formantted correctly and pass the tests:

make format
make test

  1. 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

  1. 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, and add the feature to the list in README.rst.

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

Tips

To run a particular test execute pytest with the test file to run followed by a ::xxx where xxx is the test name. See pytest usage for more info:

pytest tests/test_taperable_helix.py::test_helix_torp_0pt1_tirp_0pt9_ho_0pt2

Deploying

A reminder for the maintainers on how to deploy. Make sure all your changes are committed. Then run and validate that test.pypi.org is good:

bump2version patch # param maybe: major | minor | patch
make push-tags
make release-testpypi

Finally, assuming test.pypi.org is good, push to pypi.org:

make release