Contributing

Set up Git and a GitHub Account

  • If you don’t already have a GitHub account, you can register for free.
  • If you don’t already have Git installed, you can follow these git installation instructions.

Fork and Clone Bulwark

  1. You will need your own fork to work on the code. Go to the Bulwark project page and hit the Fork button.
  2. Next, you’ll want to clone your fork to your machine:
git clone https://github.com/your-user-name/bulwark.git bulwark-dev
cd bulwark-dev
git remote add upstream https://github.com/ZaxR/bulwark.git

Set up a Development Environment

Bulwark supports Python 3.5+. It’s recommended to use version 3.5 for development to ensure newer features aren’t accidentally used, though CI tools will check all versions on the creation of a PR.

Create a Feature Branch

Bulwark loosely follows the gitflow workflow. To add a new feature, you will create every feature branch off of the develop branch:

git checkout develop
git checkout -b feature/<feature_name_in_snake_case>

Development Practices and Standards

  • Unit tests covering added/changed code are required for a PR to be merged. There is currently no CI check for coverage, but this will be manually enforced. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is encouraged.
  • Any new module, class, or function requires a docstring, in the Google docstring format.
  • Please follow PEP-8

Create a Pull Request to the develop branch

Create a pull request to the develop branch of Bulwark. Tests will be be triggered to run via Travis CI. Check that your PR doesn’t fail any tests, since it won’t be reviewed for inclusion until it passes all tests.

For Maintainers

When it’s time to create a release candidate, a new branch should be created from develop:

git checkout develop
git checkout -b release/x.x.x

However, several additional steps must also be taken:

  1. Update version in project_info.py, which updates three spots: setup.py, bulwark/__init__.py, and docs/conf.py
  2. Update the CHANGELOG.md/changelog.rst and the main README.md/index.rst (as appropriate).
  3. Rebuild the docs in your local version using:
pip install -e ".[dev]"
sphinx-apidoc -o ./docs/_source ./bulwark -f
cd docs
make html
  1. Test distribution using TestPyPI with Twine
# Installation
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade setuptools wheel
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade twine

# Build/Upload dist and install library
python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
python3 -m twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ bulwark
  1. Manually upload to PyPI for real
  1. Merge the release candidate into both master (which will trigger updates for PyPi and readthedocs) and develop.