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Welcome to the MoSAIC Contributing Guide

This guide will give you an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue and creating a PR. To get an overview of the project, read the module overview.

Issues

Create a new issue

If you spot a bug, want to request a new functionality, or have a question on how to use the module, please search if an issue already exists. If a related issue does not exist, feel free to open a new issue.

Solve an issue

If you want to contribute and do not how, feel free to scan through the existing issues.

Create a new pull request

Create a fork

If you want to request a change, you first have to fork the repository.

Setup a development environment

conda create -n MoSAIC -c conda-forge python
conda activate MoSAIC
python -m pip install -e .[all]
python -m venv ./MoSAIC
source ./MoSAIC/bin/activate
python -m pip install -e .[all]
conda create -n MoSAIC -c conda-forge python
conda activate MoSAIC
python -m pip install -e .\[all]
python -m venv ./MoSAIC
source ./MoSAIC/bin/activate
python -m pip install -e .\[all]

Make changes and run tests

Apply your changes and check if you followed the coding style (PEP8) by running

python -m flake8 --config flake8-CI.cfg
All errors pointing to ./build/ can be neglected.

If you add a new function/method/class please ensure that you add a test function, as well. Running the test simply by

pytest
Ensure that the coverage does not decrease.

Open a pull request

Now you are ready to open a pull request and please do not forget to add a description.