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Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

Types of Contributions

Report Bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/alejandrogallo/ignuplot/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 / Implement Features

Look through the GitHub issues for bugs or feature requests. Anybody is welcome to submit a pull request for open issues.

Write Documentation

ignuplot could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official ignuplot 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/alejandrogallo/ignuplot/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!

In short,

  1. Clone the repository from [email protected]:alejandrogallo/ignuplot.git
  2. Fork the repo on GitHub to your personal account.
  3. Add your fork as a remote.
  4. Pull in the latest changes from the master branch.
  5. Create a topic branch
  6. Make your changes and commit them (testing locally)
  7. Push changes to the topic branch on your remote
  8. Make a pull request against the base master branch through the Github website of your fork.

The project contains a Makefile to help with development tasts. In your checked-out clone, do

$ make help

to see the available make targets.

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. Check https://travis-ci.org/alejandrogallo/ignuplot/pull_requests and make sure that the tests pass for all supported Python versions.