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Contribution Guidelines

Contributions are welcomed! Here's a few things to know:

Steps to Contributing

TL;DR for contributing: We use the staging branch to land all new features and fixes. To make a contribution, please create a branch from staging, make a modification in the code and create a PR to staging.

Here are the basic steps to get started with your first contribution. Please reach out with any questions.

  1. Use open issues to discuss the proposed changes. Create an issue describing changes if necessary to collect feedback. Also, please use provided labels to tag issues so everyone can easily sort issues of interest.
  2. Fork the repo so you can make and test local changes.
  3. Create a new branch from staging branch for the issue (please do not create a branch from master). We suggest prefixing the branch with your username and then a descriptive title: (e.g. username/update_contributing_docs)
  4. Create a test that replicates the issue.
  5. Make code changes.
  6. Ensure unit tests pass and code style / formatting is consistent TODO: add docstring links.
  7. Create a pull request against staging branch.

Once the features included in a milestone are completed, we will merge contrib into staging. TODO: make a wiki with coding guidelines.

Coding Guidelines

We strive to maintain high quality code to make the utilities in the repository easy to understand, use, and extend. We also work hard to maintain a friendly and constructive environment. We've found that having clear expectations on the development process and consistent style helps to ensure everyone can contribute and collaborate effectively.

Code formatting and style checking

We use git-hooks to automate the process of formatting and style checking the code. In particular, we use black as a code formatter, flake8 for style checking, and the pre-commit Python framework, which ensures that both, code formatter and checker, are ran on the code during commit. If they are executed with no issues, then the commit is made, otherwise, the commit is denied until stylistic or formatting changes are made.

Please follow these instructions to set up pre-commit in your environment.

pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install

The above will install the pre-commit package, and install git hooks specified in .pre-commit-config.yaml into your .git/ directory.

Microsoft Contributor License Agreement

Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

TODO: add CLA-bot

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.

For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

Apart from the official Code of Conduct developed by Microsoft, in the Computer Vision team we adopt the following behaviors, to ensure a great working environment:

Do not point fingers

Let’s be constructive.

Click here to see some examples

"This method is missing docstrings" instead of "YOU forgot to put docstrings".

Provide code feedback based on evidence

When making code reviews, try to support your ideas based on evidence (papers, library documentation, stackoverflow, etc) rather than your personal preferences.

Click here to see some examples

"When reviewing this code, I saw that the Python implementation the metrics are based on classes, however, scikit-learn and tensorflow use functions. We should follow the standard in the industry."

Ask questions - do not give answers

Try to be empathic.

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  • Would it make more sense if ...?
  • Have you considered this ... ?