We welcome pull requests from anyone, so if you have something you'd like to contribute or an idea for improving this project, that's great! Changes should generally fit into one of the following categories:
- Bug fixes
- Implementing additional Panoptes API functionality (there's still a lot to do here!)
- Improvements/enhancements which will be generally useful to many people who use the API client.
If you're unsure about whether your changes would be suitable, please feel free to open an issue to discuss them before spending too much time implementing them. It's best to start talking about how (or if) you should do something early, before a lot of work goes into it.
The first thing you should do is fork this repo and clone your fork to your local computer. Then create a feature branch for your changes (create a separate branch for each separate contribution, don't lump unrelated changes together).
I'd strongly recommend using Docker Compose to test your development version:
$ docker-compose build dev
$ docker-compose run dev --help
When you're ready, push your changes to a branch in your fork and open a pull request. After opening the PR, you may get some comments from Hound, which is an automated service which checks coding style and highlights common mistakes. Please take note of what it says and make any changes to your code as needed.
If you have access to publish new releases on PyPI, this is a general outline of the process:
- Bump the version number in setup.py
- Update CHANGELOG.md
- Update README.md if needed
- Build and upload a new package:
python setup.py sdist
twine upload -s dist/panoptes_client-<version>*
git tag <version>
git push --tags
Note that you'll need to have a GPG key set up so that twine can sign the
package. You should also make sure that your public key is published in the key
servers so that people can verify the signature.