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 https://github.com/dgilland/hashfs/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” is open to whoever wants to implement it.

Implement Features

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

Write Documentation

HashFS could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official HashFS 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/dgilland/hashfs/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 hashfs for local development.

  1. Fork the hashfs repo on GitHub.

  2. Clone your fork locally:

    $ git clone git@github.com:your_name_here/hashfs.git
    
  3. Install your local copy into a virtualenv. Assuming you have virtualenv installed, this is how you set up your fork for local development:

    $ cd hashfs
    $ make build
    
  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 linting (PEP8 and pylint) and the tests, including testing other Python versions with tox:

    $ make test-full
    
  6. Add yourself to AUTHORS.rst.

  7. 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
    
  8. 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 README.rst.
  3. The pull request should work for Python 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. Check https://travis-ci.org/dgilland/hashfs/pull_requests and make sure that the tests pass for all supported Python versions.

Project CLI

Some useful CLI commands when working on the project are below. NOTE: All commands are run from the root of the project and require make.

make build

Run the clean and install commands.

make build

make install

Install Python dependencies into virtualenv located at env/.

make install

make clean

Remove build/test related temporary files like env/, .tox, .coverage, and __pycache__.

make clean

make test

Run unittests under the virtualenv’s default Python version. Does not test all support Python versions. To test all supported versions, see make test-full.

make test

make test-full

Run unittest and linting for all supported Python versions. NOTE: This will fail if you do not have all Python versions installed on your system. If you are on an Ubuntu based system, the Dead Snakes PPA is a good resource for easily installing multiple Python versions. If for whatever reason you’re unable to have all Python versions on your development machine, note that Travis-CI will run full integration tests on all pull requests.

make test-full

make lint

Run make pylint and make pep8 commands.

make lint

make pylint

Run pylint compliance check on code base.

make pylint

make pep8

Run PEP8 compliance check on code base.

make pep8

make docs

Build documentation to docs/_build/.

make docs