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Contributing to cvxbson

This document is a guide to contributing to cvxbson

We welcome all contributions. You don't need to be an expert (in optimization) to help out.

Checklist

Contributions are made through pull requests. Before sending a pull request, make sure you do the following:

  • Run 'make fmt' to make sure your code adheres to our coding style. This step also includes our license on top of your new files.
  • Write unit tests
  • Run the unit tests and check that they're passing

Building cvxbson from source

You'll need to build cvxbson locally in order to start editing code. Please install task.

To install cvxbson from source, clone the Github repository, navigate to its root, and run the following command:

task cvxbson:install

Contributing code

To contribute to cvxbson, send us pull requests. For those new to contributing, check out Github's guide.

Once you've made your pull request, a member of the cvxbson development team will assign themselves to review it. You might have a few back-and-forths with your reviewer before it is accepted, which is completely normal. Your pull request will trigger continuous integration tests for many different Python versions and different platforms. If these tests start failing, please fix your code and send another commit, which will re-trigger the tests.

If you'd like to add a new feature to cvxbson, please do propose your change on a GitHub issue, to make sure that your priorities align with ours.

If you'd like to contribute code but don't know where to start, try one of the following:

  • Read the cvxbson source and enhance the documentation, or address TODOs
  • Browse the issue tracker, and look for the issues tagged "help wanted".

License

A license is added to new files automatically as a pre-commit hook.

Code style

We use black and ruff to enforce our Python coding style. Before sending us a pull request, navigate to the project root and run

task cvxbson:fmt

to make sure that your changes abide by our style conventions. Please fix any errors that are reported before sending the pull request.

Writing unit tests

Most code changes will require new unit tests. Even bug fixes require unit tests, since the presence of bugs usually indicates insufficient tests. cvxbson tests live in the directory tests, which contains many files, each of which contains many unit tests. When adding tests, try to find a file in which your tests should belong; if you're testing a new feature, you might want to create a new test file.

We use the popular Python pytest framework for our tests.

Running unit tests

We use pytest to run our unit tests. To run all unit tests run the following command:

task cvxbson:test

We keep a close eye on our coverage via

task cvxbson:coverage

Please make sure that your change doesn't cause any of the unit tests to fail.