Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given. All contributors are presented in AUTHORS file.

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

Cowbird could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official Cowbird 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 utility or tool that works conjointly with Cowbird 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 cowbird for local development.

  1. Clone the repository :

git clone https://github.com/Ouranosinc/cowbird

  1. Install your local copy (see installation)

  2. When you’re done making changes, check that your changes pass code formatting and tests:

make check
make test

  1. Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub.

  2. 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:

  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 CHANGES (under relevant category of section Unreleased).

  3. 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.