CONTRIBUTING.md

Pythia Portal contributor's guide

This document contains information specific to contributing to the Project Pythia Portal. Please first refer to Pythia Contributor's Guide for overall contribution guidelines (such as detailed description of Project Pythia structure, forking, repository cloning, branching, etc.).

Instructions for building the portal site

The portal site is built with Sphinx.

When testing new content it is important to build and view the site. Read the Docs automatically builds the site for you when each Pull Request is checked. However, you can also build it locally on your machine following the instructions below.

Building the site

After checking out a local copy of the site, in your favorite terminal, navigate to the portal directory of the source repository

cd projectpythia.github.io/portal

Use conda to set up a build environment:

conda env update -f ../ci/environment.yml

This will create the dev environment (pythia). If you have previously created the environment, running this command will add any new packages that have since been added to the environment.yml file.

It's a good idea to also keep the versions of each package in the pythia environment up to date by doing:

conda activate pythia
conda update --all

Install pre-commit hooks

This repository includes pre-commit hooks (defined in .pre-commit-config.yaml). To activate/install these pre-commit hooks, run:

conda activate pythia
pre-commit install

Setting up the environment is typically a one-time step.

NOTE: The pre-commit package is already installed via the pythia conda environment.

Building the book locally

Build the site locally using Sphinx (which you just installed in the pythia environment, along with all necessary dependencies):

make html

If this step fails and you have not updated your conda environment recently, try updating with conda env update -f ../ci/environment.yml and conda update --all as described above.

The newly rendered site is now available in portal/_build/html/index.html. Open with your web browser, or from the terminal:

open _build/html/index.html

However, many of the links will not work. For all of the links found in the portal to work properly, you'll need to set up a local testing server. This can be done with Python's http.server by running the following command from within the portal directory:

python -m http.server --directory _build/html/

and then pointing your browser at the URL: localhost:8000.

More information on setting up a local test server is available from here

When you're done, you can deactivate the dedicated build environment with

conda deactivate

You can re-activate the pythia conda environment at any time with conda activate pythia. You may also want to update each package in the activated environment to their latest versions by doing

conda activate pythia
conda update --all

To view the Read the Docs autobuild

Once a Pull Request has passed all tests, including the Read the Docs build, you can click "Details" of the check that says, "docs/readthedocs.org:projectpythia - Read the Docs build succeeded!" to launch a new tab with a build of the Project Pythia site. (You may have to click "Show all checks" for this to be displayed.)