Contribution Guidelines

Guidelines for new Issues

There are a several types of issues. The most common are bug fixes, but some will be oriented toward feature requests.

New bugfix issues should contain a full description of how to repeat the problem identified. If the problem cannot be repeated, then the issue may be closed due to lack of information.

Feature request issues may warrant discussion in that thread. It is expected that some features may be implemented in the future, but this project is not intended to be the pytest or the django of manufacturing test and, thus, I don’t anticipate a large feature set.

Guidelines for Pull Requests

I am not a full-time project maintainer. I’m a dude with a job. That means that pull requests have to be relatively self-contained in order to make the cut. Having said that, I don’t think that the bar is too high in this instance.

It is advised to create a pull request against one or more issues which are already documented. The risk of simply adding features is that your cool new whiz-bang feature is simply not a part of the author’s vision for the project… meaning that you just did a bunch of work for nothing. Neither of us wants that.

New pull requests shall:

  • have an explanation of the feature or bugfix that they are implementing (preferabley with an issue number to refer to)

  • have some test coverage for that feature/bugfix

  • be PEP8 compliant as defined by flake8 test

Executing Automated Testing

The packages required in order to execute the automated testing can be found in the test_requirements.txt file at the base of the github repository. As of this writing, the test coverage is at 96% and any new functionality will be required to be backed up by testing.

To get set up for testing, fork the repository to your user. You may then clone the github repository, install all requirements, install the repository in develop mode:

$> git clone https://github.com/<your_user_name>/mats
$> pip install -r test_requirements.txt
$> pip install -r requirements.txt
$> python setup.py develop

Run all tests using:

$> py.test tests/

Then run the style checker using:

$> flake8 mats

Future Development

Features that I foresee:

  • More dynamic ArchiveManager

    • sqlite

    • excel

  • Qt-based GUI

Have others?