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/kdopen/gerritssh/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 “feature” is open to whoever wants to implement it. Or look at the Planned Features section of the README file.

Write Documentation

gerritssh could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official gerritssh 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/kdopen/gerritssh/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 gerritssh for local development.

  1. Fork the gerritssh repo on GitHub.

  2. Create a virtual-environment (you are using vitualenv, aren’t you?)

  3. Clone your fork locally and install the basic requirements:

    $ git clone git@github.com:your_name_here/gerritssh.git
    $ cd gerritssh
    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
    
  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 style and unit tests, including testing other Python versions with tox:

    $ tox
    

    To get tox and the other test-related tools, just:

    $ pip install -r test-requirements.txt
    

    Note

    tox is configured to apply style checks using flake8, including pep8-naming. Line length limits are set to trigger at 79 characters, which will explain some of the seemingly strange layouts of strings and expressions.

  6. 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
    
  7. Don’t expect to get 100% coverage (via make coverage), as there are code sections which only activate on specific versions of Python (a cost of cross-version support).

  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 list in README.rst.
  3. The pull request should work for Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. Check https://travis-ci.org/kdopen/gerritssh under pull requests for active pull requests or run the tox command and make sure that the tests pass for all supported Python versions.

Note

gerritssh uses the git-flow branching model. Please request that your pull-request be merged to the develop branch, and ensure your changes are based on the develop branch.

Testing

To run a subset of tests:

$ py.test test/test_<module>.py

where <module> is the name of the actual submodule you wish to test.

To run tests on all Python versions:

$ make test-all
  or
$ tox

To ensure that you have not introduced any errors which would only show up when actually communicating with a real Gerrit instance, there are a set of tests which perform no mocking, and actually ‘reach out’ to a live instance. If you have an account with review.openstack.org - and have added your public key - simply run:

$ make test-all-online
  or
$ make test-online

If you have an account on a different Gerrit instance, you can test against it instead:

$ GSSH_TEST_INSTANCE='gerrit.mysite.com' tox
  or
$ GSSH_TEST_INSTANCE-'gerrit.mysite.com' py.test