Welcome to the development guidelines for the Aequitas project. This document provides an overview of the development process and best practices to follow when working on the project. Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.
You can contribute in many ways:
Report bugs at https://github.com/dssg/aequitas/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.
Look through the GitHub issues for bugs. Anything tagged with "bug" and "help wanted" is open to whoever wants to implement it.
Look through the GitHub issues for features. Anything tagged with "enhancement" and "help wanted" is open to whoever wants to implement it.
Aequitas could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official Aequitas docs, in docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts, articles, presentations, and such.
The best way to send feedback is to file an issue at https://github.com/dssg/aequitas/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 🙂
The codebase is officially hosted at GitHub. Clone or fork the repository and create a new branch for each feature/fix you are working on. Make sure to have an issue associated with the branch you are working on, and reference the issue in any merge requests. When you have completed your work, submit a pull request to the main branch. Provide a clear and detailed description of the changes made and any relevant information for reviewers.
For this project, we recommend using Astral's uv as the project management tool. To set up the environment for the project, follow these steps:
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/dssg/aequitas.git
- Setup the virtual environment:
cd aequitas
uv run python # Instantiate a python shell with the venv.
Make sure that you have a Python version of 3.8 or higher in your system and this version is detected or managed by uv.
When creating or altering a file, format it using ruff
. This tool organizes imports (similar to isort
), formats the code (similar to black
), and checks for linting errors (similar to flake8
). To format a file, run:
uv run ruff format <filename>
or alternatively, to format all files in the project, run:
uv run ruff format src
To run the unit tests included in the package, use the following command:
uv run --extra cli --extra webapp pytest
To run the tests, it is necessary to include the extra dependencies of the package. To return a coverage report, run:
uv run --extra cli --extra webapp pytest --cov-report xml:cov.xml
This file can be used by your IDE (e.g. VSCode) to display the coverage of the tests. Ensure that the code you submit has a good coverage of tests (at least 80%).
TBD.