Contributing to datreant

datreant is an open-source project, with its development driven by the needs of its users. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the project, which centers around the datreant GitHub organization.

Development model

datreant follows the development model outlined by Vincent Driessen , with the develop branch being the unstable focal point for development. The master branch merges from the develop branch only when all tests are passing, and usually only before a release. In general, master should be usable at all times, while develop may be broken at any particular moment.

Setting up your development environment

We recommend using virtual environments with virtualenvwrapper. First, clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:datreant/datreant.git

Make a new virtualenv called datreant with:

mkvirtualenv datreant

and make a development installation of datreant with:

cd datreant
pip install -e .

The -e flag will cause pip to call setup with the develop option. This means that any changes on the source code will immediately be reflected in your virtual environment.

Running the tests locally

As you work on datreant, it’s important to see how your changes affected its expected behavior. With your virtualenv enabled:

workon datreant

switch to the top-level directory of the package and run:

py.test --cov src/ --pep8 src/

This will run all the tests (inside src/datreant/tests), with coverage and PEP8 checks.

Note that to run the tests you will need to install py.test and the coverage and PEP8 plugins into your virtualenv:

pip install pytest pytest-cov pytest-pep8