Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

Types of Contributions

Report Bugs

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.

  • Whether you would like to attempt fixing the bug yourself and a brief overview of how you would like to do so.

Write Documentation

You can never have enough documentation! Please feel free to contribute to any part of the documentation, such as the official docs, docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts, articles, and such.

Submit Feedback

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 :)

Get Started!

Ready to contribute? Here’s how to set up pystats for local development.

  1. Follow the instructions in the README file to install pystats on your machine.

  2. Use git (or similar) to create a branch for local development and make your changes:

    $ git switch -c name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature

  3. When you’re done making changes, check that your changes conform to any code formatting requirements and pass any tests.

  4. Commit your changes and open a pull request.

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

  1. The pull request should include additional tests if appropriate.

  2. If the pull request adds functionality, the docs should be updated.

  3. The pull request should work for all currently supported operating systems and versions of Python.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the pystats project is released with a Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project you agree to abide by its terms. Please see the Conduct File for more details.

Attribution

This contribution template is adapted from the py-pkgs-cookiecutter default.