Contributing

Your First Contribution

1. Create a fork of this repository on GitHub under your own account.

2. Follow the getting started guide, substituting references to the main repository for your fork.

3. Create a new branch

   $ git checkout -b my-new-branch
   

4. Make some awesome commits

   $ # Make some changes
   $ git commit
   

5. Make sure all tests pass

   $ ./test.sh
   $ # All tests should pass, and pylint and mypy should raise no complaints
   

6. Merge in any changes from the main repository that might have occurred since you made the fork. Fix any merge conflicts

   $ git checkout master
   $ git pull upstream master
   $ git checkout my-new-branch
   $ git merge master
   

7. Push the branch:

   $ git push -u origin my-new-branch
   

8. Submit a pull request on GitHub

9. Thanks for your contribution! One of the maintainers will get back to you soon with any suggested changes or feedback.

Guidelines

Any code contributions should follow the following guidelines.

Code Style

Python code should conform to the PEP8 style guidelines.

Docstrings should conform to the Google Style. For example (copied from Google’s Style Guide):

def fetch_bigtable_rows(big_table, keys, other_silly_variable=None):
    """Fetches rows from a Bigtable.

    Retrieves rows pertaining to the given keys from the Table instance
    represented by big_table.  Silly things may happen if
    other_silly_variable is not None.

    Args:
        big_table: An open Bigtable Table instance.
        keys: A sequence of strings representing the key of each table row
            to fetch.
        other_silly_variable: Another optional variable, that has a much
            longer name than the other args, and which does nothing.

    Returns:
        A dict mapping keys to the corresponding table row data
        fetched. Each row is represented as a tuple of strings. For
        example:

        {'Serak': ('Rigel VII', 'Preparer'),
         'Zim': ('Irk', 'Invader'),
         'Lrrr': ('Omicron Persei 8', 'Emperor')}

        If a key from the keys argument is missing from the dictionary,
        then that row was not found in the table.

    Raises:
        IOError: An error occurred accessing the bigtable.Table object.
    """

Testing

To run all tests, execute test.sh. All tests should pass on your submission.

Travis CI

These tests are checked are run by Travis CI on all pull requests and the master branch. Before each commit, run test.sh and ensure that all tests pass. All tests should pass on each commit to make reverting easy.

Unit Testing

Unit testing is performed using pytest. To run these tests, execute python -m pytest from the repository root.

Code and Style Analysis

PEP8 are checked by pylint. pylint also performs static code analysis to catch some programming errors. This analysis is intended to be a fall-back defense, as unit testing should be thorough.

Type Checking

All code should use type hints wherever type cannot be inferred. At a minimum, all function prototypes should have type hints for the return value and each parameter. Type hinting is performed in the code itself, not in docstrings. Static type analysis is performed by mypy

Code Coverage

When running the test suite using test.sh, code coverage is computed by pytest-cov when running pytest and output after test results. Use these results to ensure that all tests are being covered. If the total coverage is not 100%, run coverage report -m to see which lines were not tested. Incomplete coverage may be acceptable if the untested lines should not have been tested (e.g. code stubs for un-implemented functions).

Coverage is tracked by Codecov.