Thank you for your interest in the project. We look forward to your contribution. In order to make the process as fast and streamlined as possible, here is a set of guidelines we recommend you follow.
We do our best to ensure bugs don't creep up in our releases, but some may still slip through. If you encounter one while using docker-py, please create an issue in the tracker with the following information:
- docker-py version, docker version and python version
pip freeze | grep docker-py && python --version && docker version
- OS, distribution and OS version
- The issue you're encountering including a stacktrace if applicable
- If possible, steps or a code snippet to reproduce the issue
To save yourself time, please be sure to check our documentation and use the search function to find out if it has already been addressed, or is currently being looked at.
Do you have a fix for an existing issue, or want to add a new functionality to docker-py? We happily welcome pull requests. Here are a few tips to make the review process easier on both the maintainers and yourself.
Please refer to the "Sign your work" paragraph in the Docker contribution guidelines.
Before we can review your pull request, please ensure that nothing has been
broken by your changes by running the test suite. You can do so simply by
running make test
in the project root. This also includes coding style using
flake8
Your commit message should be concise and describe the nature of the change. The commit itself should make sense in isolation from the others in your PR. Specifically, one should be able to review your commit separately from the context.
It's much easier to review a pull request that is up to date against the current master branch.
GitHub doesn't notify subscribers when new commits happen on a PR, and fixes or additions might be missed. Please add a comment to the PR thread when you push new changes.
Please wait for review and approval of two maintainers, and respond to their comments and suggestions during review.
Whether you're adding new functionality to the project or fixing a bug, please add relevant tests to ensure the code you added continues to work as the project evolves.
This usually applies to new features rather than bug fixes, but new behavior should always be documented.
If you're ever confused about something pertaining to the project, feel free to reach out and ask questions. We will do our best to answer and help out.
If you're looking contribute to docker-py but are new to the project or Python, here are the steps to get you started.
- Fork https://github.com/docker/docker-py to your username.
- Clone your forked repository locally with
git clone [email protected]:yourusername/docker-py.git
. - Configure a remote for your fork so that you can sync changes you make with the original repository.
- Enter the local directory
cd docker-py
. - Run
python setup.py develop
to install the dev version of the project and required dependencies. We recommend you do so inside a virtual environment