Bug reports, feature suggestions and other contributions are greatly appreciated! pysat and pysatCDAAC are community-driven projects that welcome both feedback and contributions.
Come join us on Slack! An invitation to the pysat workspace is available in the 'About' section of the pysat GitHub Repository. Development meetings are generally held fortnightly.
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Submit bug reports, feature requests, and questions at
GitHub Issues <https://github.com/pysat/pysatCDAAC/issues>
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Make pull requests to the
develop
branch
When reporting a bug please include:
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Your operating system name and version
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Any details about your local setup that might be helpful in troubleshooting
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Detailed steps to reproduce the bug
The best way to send feedback is to file an issue at GitHub.
If you are proposing a feature:
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Explain in detail how it would work.
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Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
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Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that code contributions are welcome :)
To set up pysatCDAAC
for local development:
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Clone your fork locally::
git clone [email protected]:your_name_here/pysatCDAAC.git
- Create a branch for local development::
git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
Now you can make your changes locally.
Tests for new instruments are performed automatically. See discussion here for more information on triggering these standard tests.
Tests for custom functions should be added to the appropriately named file
in pysatCDAAC/tests
. For example, custom instrument functions are
tested in pysatCDAAC/tests/test_instruments.py
. If no test file exists,
then you should create one. This testing uses pytest, which will run tests
on any python file in the test directory that starts with test
. Classes
must begin with Test
, and methods must begin with test
as well.
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When you're done making changes, run all the checks to ensure that nothing is broken on your local system::
pytest
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You should also check for flake8 style compliance:
flake8 . --count --select=D,E,F,H,W --show-source --statistics
Note that pysat uses the flake-docstrings
and hacking
packages to ensure
standards in docstring formatting.
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Update/add documentation (in
docs
). Even if you don't think it's relevant, check to see if any existing examples have changed. -
Add your name to the .zenodo.json file as an author
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Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub::
git add . git commit -m "AAA: Brief description of your changes"
Where AAA is a standard shorthand for the type of change (eg, BUG or DOC).
pysat
follows the numpy development workflow, see the discussion there for a full list of this shorthand notation. -
Once you are happy with the local changes, push to GitHub:
git push origin name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
Note that each push will trigger the Continuous Integration workflow.
- Submit a pull request through the GitHub website. Pull requests should be
made to the
develop
branch. Note that automated tests will be run on GitHub Actions, but these must be initialized by a member of the pysat team.
If you need some code review or feedback while you're developing the code, just
make a pull request. Pull requests should be made to the develop
branch.
For merging, you should:
- Include an example for use
- Add a note to
CHANGELOG.md
about the changes - Update the author list in
zenodo.json
if applicable - Ensure that all checks passed (current checks include GitHub Actions and Coveralls)
If you don't have all the necessary Python versions available locally or have trouble building all the testing environments, you can rely on GitHub Actions to run the tests for each change you add in the pull request. Because testing here will delay tests by other developers, please ensure that the code passes all tests on your local system first.
In general, pysat follows PEP8 and numpydoc guidelines. Pytest runs the unit and integration tests, flake8 checks for style, and sphinx-build performs documentation tests. However, there are certain additional style elements that have been settled on to ensure the project maintains a consistent coding style. These include:
- Line breaks should occur before a binary operator (ignoring flake8 W503)
- Combine long strings using
join
- Preferably break long lines on open parentheses rather than using
\
- Use no more than 80 characters per line
- Avoid using Instrument class key attribute names as unrelated variable names:
platform
,name
,tag
, andinst_id
- The pysat logger is imported into each sub-module and provides status updates at the info and warning levels (as appropriate)
- Several dependent packages have common nicknames, including:
import datetime as dt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pds
import xarray as xr
- All classes should have
__repr__
and__str__
functions - Docstrings use
Note
instead ofNotes
- Try to avoid creating a try/except statement where except passes
- Use setup_method (or setup_class) and teardown_method (or teardown_class) in test classes
- Use pytest parametrize in test classes when appropriate
- Provide testing class methods with informative failure statements and descriptive, one-line docstrings
- Block and inline comments should use proper English grammar and punctuation with the exception of single sentences in a block, which may then omit the final period
- When casting is necessary, use
np.int64
andnp.float64
to ensure operating system agnosticism