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/CSHS-CWRA/ravenpy/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

RavenPy could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official RavenPy 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/CSHS-CWRA/ravenpy/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 ravenpy for local development.

Fork the ravenpy repo on GitHub.

Clone your fork locally:

$ git clone git@github.com:your_name_here/ravenpy.git

Install your local copy into a virtualenv. Assuming you have virtualenvwrapper installed, this is how you set up your fork for local development:
```
$ mkvirtualenv ravenpy
$ cd ravenpy/
$ pip install -e ".[dev]"
```
To ensure a consistent style, please install the pre-commit hooks to your repo:
```
$ pre-commit install
```
Special style and formatting checks will be run when you commit your changes. You can always run the hooks on their own with:
```
$ pre-commit run -a
```
Create a branch for local development:
```
$ git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
```
Now you can make your changes locally.
When you’re done making changes, check that your changes pass flake8, black, and the tests, including testing other Python versions with tox:
```
$ flake8 ravenpy tests
$ black --check ravenpy tests
$ pytest tests
$ tox
```
To get flake8, black, and tox, just pip install them into your virtualenv.

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

If you are editing the docs, compile and open them with:

$ make docs
# or to simply generate the html
$ cd docs/
$ make html

Submit a pull request through the GitHub website.

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

The pull request should include tests.
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.
The pull request should work for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. Check https://github.com/CSHS-CWRA/RavenPy/actions/workflows/main.yml and make sure that the tests pass for all supported Python versions.

Tips

To run a subset of tests:

$ pytest tests.test_ravenpy

Versioning/Tagging

A reminder for the maintainers on how to deploy. Make sure all your changes are committed (including an entry in HISTORY.rst). Then run:

$ bumpversion patch # possible: major / minor / patch
$ git push
$ git push --tags

Packaging

When a new version has been minted (features have been successfully integrated test coverage and stability is adequate), maintainers should update the pip-installable package (wheel and source release) on PyPI as well as the binary on conda-forge.

The Automated Approach

The simplest way to package ravenpy is to “publish” a version on GitHuh. GitHub CI Actions are presently configured to build the library and publish the packages on PyPI automatically.

Tagged versions will trigger a GitHub Workflow (tag-testpypi.yml) that will attempt to build and publish the release on TestPyPI.

Note

Should this step fail, changes may be needed in the package; Be sure to remove this tag on GitHub and locally, address any existing problems, and recreate the tag.

To upload a new version to PyPI, simply create a new “Published” release version on GitHub to trigger the upload workflow (publish-pypi.yml). When publishing on GitHub, the maintainer can either set the release notes manually (based on the HISTORY.rst), or set GitHub to generate release notes automatically. The choice of method is up to the maintainer.

Warning

A published version on TestPyPI/PyPI can never be overwritten. Be sure to verify that the package published at https://test.pypi.org/project/ravenpy/ matches expectations before publishing a release version on GitHub.

The Manual Approach

The manual approach to library packaging for general support (pip wheels) requires that the flit library is installed.

From the command line on your Linux distribution, simply run the following from the clone’s main dev branch:

# To build the packages (sources and wheel)
$ flit build

# To upload to PyPI
$ flit publish

The new version based off of the version checked out will now be available via pip ($ pip install ravenpy).

Releasing on conda-forge

Initial Release

In order to prepare an initial release on conda-forge, we strongly suggest consulting the following links:

Before updating the main conda-forge recipe, we echo the conda-forge documentation and strongly suggest performing the following checks:

Ensure that dependencies and dependency versions correspond with those of the PyPI published version, with open or pinned versions for the host requirements.
If possible, configure tests within the conda-forge build CI, e.g.:

test:
  source_files:
    - tests
  requires:
    - pip
    - pytest
    - pytest-xdist
  imports:
    - ravenpy
  commands:
    - pip check
    - pytest

Subsequent releases

If the conda-forge feedstock recipe is built from PyPI, then when a new release is published on PyPI, regro-cf-autotick-bot will open Pull Requests automatically on the conda-forge feedstock. It is up to the conda-forge feedstock maintainers to verify that the package is building properly before merging the Pull Request to the main branch.