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Contribution Guidelines

Whether reporting bugs, discussing improvements and new ideas or writing extensions: Contributions to TinyDB are welcome! Here's how to get started:

  1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug
  2. Fork the repository on GitHub, create a new branch off the master branch and start making your changes (known as GitHub Flow)
  3. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected
  4. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published :)

Philosophy of TinyDB

TinyDB aims to be simple and fun to use. Therefore two key values are simplicity and elegance of interfaces and code. These values will contradict each other from time to time. In these cases , try using as little magic as possible. In any case don't forget documenting code that isn't clear at first glance.

Code Conventions

In general the TinyDB source should always follow PEP 8. Exceptions are allowed in well justified and documented cases. However we make a small exception concerning docstrings:

When using multiline docstrings, keep the opening and closing triple quotes on their own lines and add an empty line after it.

def some_function():
    """
    Documentation ...
    """

    # implementation ...

Version Numbers

TinyDB follows the SemVer versioning guidelines. This implies that backwards incompatible changes in the API will increment the major version. So think twice before making such changes.