In the spirit of free software, we encourage everyone to help improve this project. Here are some ways you can contribute:
- Use alpha, beta, and pre-release versions.
- Report bugs.
- Suggest new features.
- Write or edit documentation.
- Write specifications.
- Write code (no patch is too small: fix typos, add comments, clean up inconsistent whitespace).
- Refactor code.
- Fix issues.
- Review patches.
We use the GitHub issue tracker to track bugs and features. Before submitting a bug report or feature request, check to make sure no one else has already submitted the same bug report.
When submitting a bug report, please include a Gist that includes a stack trace and any details that may be necessary to reproduce the bug, including your pyIsEmail version, Python version, and operating system.
Ideally, a bug report should include a pull request with failing tests.
There is a setup script that you can run directly on any platform that has a POSIX shell. Run script/setup
to get started, then skip to the next section. For more information, read on in this section.
We use Hatch to manage the project. It enables us to centralize the organization of our dependencies and development harness.
To get started with Hatch, you can install it in a variety of ways. We recommend installing it via your operating system's package manager or with pipx
instead of using pip
.
Once you have installed Hatch, you are ready to started contributing code!
- Fork the repository.
- Create a topic branch.
- Add tests for your unimplemented feature or bug fix.
- Run
script/test
. If your tests pass, return to step 3. - Implement your feature or bug fix.
- Run
script/chores
. If your tests or any of the linters fail, return to step 5. - Open
coverage/index.html
. If your changes are not fully covered by your tests, return to step 3. - Add documentation for your feature or bug fix.
- Commit and push your changes.
- Submit a pull request.
After checking out the repository, run script/setup
to install dependencies. Then, run script/test
to run the tests. You can also run script/console
for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
Before committing code, run script/chores
to check that the code conforms to the style guidelines of the project, that all of the tests are green (if you’re writing a feature; if you’re only submitting a failing test, then it does not have to pass!), and that the changes are sufficiently documented.
Hatch has built-in support for managing releases. Use hatch build
to build the wheel and source distribution. Then, run tar -tvf dist/pyisemail-<version>.tar.gz
to verify the contents of the archive. If everything looks good, publish with hatch publish
.