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Contributing to dhcpcanon

We welcome contributions of any kind (ideas, code, tests, documentation, examples, ...).

General contribution guidelines

  • Any non-trivial change should contain tests.
  • All the functions and methods should contain Sphinx docstrings which are used to generate the API documentation.

Code style guide

  • We follow PEP8 Python Style Guide
  • Use 4 spaces for a tab
  • Use 79 characters in a line
  • Make sure edited file doesn't contain any trailing whitespace
  • You can verify that your modifications don't break any rules by running the flake8 script - e.g. flake8 dhcpcanon/edited_file.py or tox -e style. Second command will run flake8 on all the files in the repository.

And most importantly, follow the existing style in the file you are editing and be consistent.

Docstring conventions

For documenting the API we we use Sphinx and reStructuredText syntax.

Contribution workflow

1. Open a new issue on our issue tracker

Go to our issue tracker and open a new issue for your changes there.

2. Fork our Github repository

Fork our Github git repository. Your fork will be used to hold your changes.

3. Create a new branch for your changes

For example:

4. Make your changes

Commit often and rebase master

5. Write tests for your changes and make sure all the tests pass

Make sure that all the code you have added or modified has appropriate test coverage. Also make sure all the tests including the existing ones still pass using tox

6. Open a Pull request

You can then push your feature branch to your remote and open a pull request.

note

Partly copied from libcloud contributing