Contributing

Welcome!

This document is fairly extensive and you are not really expected to study this in detail for small contributions;

The most important rule is that contributing must be easy and that the community is friendly and not nitpicking on details such as coding style.

If you're reporting a bug you should read the Reporting bugs section below to ensure that your bug report contains enough information to successfully diagnose the issue, and if you're contributing code you should try to mimic the conventions you see surrounding the code you are working on, but in the end all patches will be cleaned up by the person merging the changes so don't worry too much.

Community Code of Conduct
Reporting Bugs
Versions
Branches
Tags
Working on Features & Patches
Coding Style
Contributing features requiring additional libraries
Contacts
- Committers
  - Abhishek Fatehpuria
  - Jamshed Vesuna
Packages
- Deux
Release Procedure
- Updating the version number
- Releasing

Community Code of Conduct

The goal is to maintain a diverse community that is pleasant for everyone. That is why we would greatly appreciate it if everyone contributing to and interacting with the community also followed this Code of Conduct.

The Code of Conduct covers our behavior as members of the community, in any forum, mailing list, wiki, website, Internet relay chat (IRC), public meeting or private correspondence.

The Code of Conduct is heavily based on the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, and the Pylons Code of Conduct.

Be considerate.

Your work will be used by other people, and you in turn will depend on the work of others. Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and we expect you to take those consequences into account when making decisions. Even if it's not obvious at the time, our contributions to Deux will impact the work of others. For example, changes to code, infrastructure, policy, documentation and translations during a release may negatively impact others work.

Be respectful.

The Deux community and its members treat one another with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to Deux. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It's important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect members of the Deux community to be respectful when dealing with other contributors as well as with people outside the Deux project and with users of Deux.

Be collaborative.

Collaboration is central to Deux and to the larger free software community. We should always be open to collaboration. Your work should be done transparently and patches from Deux should be given back to the community when they are made, not just when the distribution releases. If you wish to work on new code for existing upstream projects, at least keep those projects informed of your ideas and progress. It many not be possible to get consensus from upstream, or even from your colleagues about the correct implementation for an idea, so don't feel obliged to have that agreement before you begin, but at least keep the outside world informed of your work, and publish your work in a way that allows outsiders to test, discuss and contribute to your efforts.

When you disagree, consult others.

Disagreements, both political and technical, happen all the time and the Deux community is no exception. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively and with the help of the community and community process. If you really want to go a different way, then we encourage you to make a derivative distribution or alternate set of packages that still build on the work we've done to utilize as common of a core as possible.

When you are unsure, ask for help.

Nobody knows everything, and nobody is expected to be perfect. Asking questions avoids many problems down the road, and so questions are encouraged. Those who are asked questions should be responsive and helpful. However, when asking a question, care must be taken to do so in an appropriate forum.

Step down considerately.

Developers on every project come and go and Deux is no different. When you leave or disengage from the project, in whole or in part, we ask that you do so in a way that minimizes disruption to the project. This means you should tell people you are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where you leave off.

Reporting Bugs

Security

You must never report security related issues, vulnerabilities or bugs including sensitive information to the bug tracker, or elsewhere in public. Instead sensitive bugs must be sent by email to security@robinhood.com.

If you'd like to submit the information encrypted our PGP key is:

Other bugs

The best way to report an issue and to ensure a timely response is to use the issue tracker.

Create a GitHub account.

You need to create a GitHub account to be able to create new issues and participate in the discussion.

Determine if your bug is really a bug.

You should not file a bug if you are requesting support.

Make sure your bug hasn't already been reported.

Search through the appropriate Issue tracker. If a bug like yours was found, check if you have new information that could be reported to help the developers fix the bug.

Check if you're using the latest version.

A bug could be fixed by some other improvements and fixes - it might not have an existing report in the bug tracker. Make sure you're using the latest release of Deux, and try the development version to see if the issue is already fixed and pending release.

Collect information about the bug.

To have the best chance of having a bug fixed, we need to be able to easily reproduce the conditions that caused it. Most of the time this information will be from a Python traceback message, though some bugs might be in design, spelling or other errors on the website/docs/code.

If the error is from a Python traceback, include it in the bug report.

We also need to know what platform you're running (Windows, macOS, Linux, etc.), the version of your Python interpreter, and the version of Deux, and related packages that you were running when the bug occurred.

Submit the bug.

By default GitHub will email you to let you know when new comments have been made on your bug. In the event you've turned this feature off, you should check back on occasion to ensure you don't miss any questions a developer trying to fix the bug might ask.

Issue Tracker

The Deux issue tracker can be found at GitHub: https://github.com/robinhood/deux

Versions

Version numbers consists of a major version, minor version and a release number, and conforms to the SemVer versioning spec: http://semver.org.

Stable releases are published at PyPI while development releases are only available in the GitHub git repository as tags. All version tags starts with “v”, so version 0.8.0 is the tag v0.8.0.

Branches

Current active version branches:

master (https://github.com/robinhood/deux/tree/master)

You can see the state of any branch by looking at the Changelog:

https://github.com/robinhood/deux/blob/master/Changelog

If the branch is in active development the topmost version info should contain meta-data like:

2.4.0
======
:release-date: TBA
:status: DEVELOPMENT
:branch: master

The status field can be one of:

PLANNING

The branch is currently experimental and in the planning stage.
DEVELOPMENT

The branch is in active development, but the test suite should be passing and the product should be working and possible for users to test.
FROZEN

The branch is frozen, and no more features will be accepted. When a branch is frozen the focus is on testing the version as much as possible before it is released.

`master` branch

The master branch is where development of the next version happens.

Maintenance branches

Maintenance branches are named after the version, e.g. the maintenance branch for the 2.2.x series is named 2.2. Previously these were named releaseXX-maint.

The versions we currently maintain is:

1.0

This is the current series.

Archived branches

Archived branches are kept for preserving history only, and theoretically someone could provide patches for these if they depend on a series that is no longer officially supported.

An archived version is named X.Y-archived.

Deux does not currently have any archived branches.

Feature branches

Major new features are worked on in dedicated branches. There is no strict naming requirement for these branches.

Feature branches are removed once they have been merged into a release branch.

Working on Features & Patches

Note

Contributing to Deux should be as simple as possible, so none of these steps should be considered mandatory.

You can even send in patches by email if that is your preferred work method. We won't like you any less, any contribution you make is always appreciated!

However following these steps may make maintainers life easier, and may mean that your changes will be accepted sooner.

Forking and setting up the repository

First you need to fork the Deux repository, a good introduction to this is in the GitHub Guide: Fork a Repo.

After you have cloned the repository you should checkout your copy to a directory on your machine:

$ git clone git@github.com:username/deux.git

When the repository is cloned enter the directory to set up easy access to upstream changes:

$ cd deux
$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/robinhood/deux.git
$ git fetch upstream

If you need to pull in new changes from upstream you should always use the --rebase option to git pull:

git pull --rebase upstream master

With this option you don't clutter the history with merging commit notes. See Rebasing merge commits in git. If you want to learn more about rebasing see the Rebase section in the GitHub guides.

If you need to work on a different branch than master you can fetch and checkout a remote branch like this:

git checkout --track -b 3.0-devel origin/3.0-devel

Running the unit test suite

To run the Deux test suite you need to install a few dependencies. A complete list of the dependencies needed are located in requirements/test.txt.

If you're working on the development version, then you need to install the development requirements first:

$ pip install -U -r requirements/dev.txt

Both the stable and the development version have testing related dependencies, so install these next:

$ pip install -U -r requirements/test.txt
$ pip install -U -r requirements/default.txt

After installing the dependencies required, you can now execute the test suite by calling:

$ python setup.py test

This will run all of the test.

Creating pull requests

When your feature/bugfix is complete you may want to submit a pull requests so that it can be reviewed by the maintainers.

Creating pull requests is easy, and also let you track the progress of your contribution. Read the Pull Requests section in the GitHub Guide to learn how this is done.

You can also attach pull requests to existing issues by following the steps outlined here: http://bit.ly/koJoso

Calculating test coverage

To calculate test coverage you must first install the coverage module.

Installing the coverage module:

$ pip install -U coverage

Code coverage in HTML:

$ make cov

The coverage output will then be located at cover/index.html.

Running the tests on all supported Python versions

There is a tox configuration file in the top directory of the distribution.

To run the tests for all supported Python versions simply execute:

$ tox

Use the tox -e option if you only want to test specific Python versions:

$ tox -e 2.7

Building the documentation

To build the documentation you need to install the dependencies listed in requirements/docs.txt:

$ pip install -U -r requirements/docs.txt

After these dependencies are installed you should be able to build the docs by running:

$ cd docs
$ rm -rf _build
$ make html

Make sure there are no errors or warnings in the build output. After building succeeds the documentation is available at _build/html.

Verifying your contribution

To use these tools you need to install a few dependencies. These dependencies can be found in requirements/pkgutils.txt.

Installing the dependencies:

$ pip install -U -r requirements/pkgutils.txt

pyflakes & PEP8

To ensure that your changes conform to PEP8 and to run pyflakes execute:

$ make flakecheck

To not return a negative exit code when this command fails use the flakes target instead:

$ make flakes

API reference

To make sure that all modules have a corresponding section in the API reference please execute:

$ make apicheck
$ make configcheck

If files are missing you can add them by copying an existing reference file.

If the module is internal it should be part of the internal reference located in docs/internals/reference/. If the module is public it should be located in docs/reference/.

For example if reference is missing for the module deux.awesome and this module is considered part of the public API, use the following steps:

Use an existing file as a template:

$ cd docs/reference/
$ cp deux.request.rst deux.awesome.rst

Edit the file using your favorite editor:

$ vim deux.awesome.rst

    # change every occurrence of ``deux.request`` to
    # ``deux.awesome``

Edit the index using your favorite editor:

$ vim index.rst

    # Add ``deux.awesome`` to the index.

Commit your changes:

# Add the file to git
$ git add deux.awesome.rst
$ git add index.rst
$ git commit deux.awesome.rst index.rst \
    -m "Adds reference for deux.awesome"

Coding Style

You should probably be able to pick up the coding style from surrounding code, but it is a good idea to be aware of the following conventions.

All Python code must follow the PEP-8 guidelines.

pep8.py is an utility you can use to verify that your code is following the conventions.

Docstrings must follow the PEP-257 conventions, and use the following style.

Do this:

def method(self, arg):
    """Short description.

    More details.

    """

or:

def method(self, arg):
    """Short description."""

but not this:

def method(self, arg):
    """
    Short description.
    """

Lines should not exceed 78 columns.

You can enforce this in vim by setting the textwidth option:
```
set textwidth=78
```
If adhering to this limit makes the code less readable, you have one more character to go on, which means 78 is a soft limit, and 79 is the hard limit :)
Import order
- Python standard library (import xxx)
- Python standard library ('from xxx import`)
- Third-party packages.
- Other modules from the current package.
or in case of code using Django:
- Python standard library (import xxx)
- Python standard library ('from xxx import`)
- Third-party packages.
- Django packages.
- Other modules from the current package.
Within these sections the imports should be sorted by module name.

Example:
```
import threading
import time

from collections import deque
from Queue import Queue, Empty

from .datastructures import TokenBucket
from .five import zip_longest, items, range
from .utils import timeutils
```
Wild-card imports must not be used (from xxx import *).
For distributions where Python 2.5 is the oldest support version additional rules apply:
- Absolute imports must be enabled at the top of every module:
```
from __future__ import absolute_import
```
- If the module uses the with statement and must be compatible with Python 2.5 (deux is not) then it must also enable that:
```
from __future__ import with_statement
```
- Every future import must be on its own line, as older Python 2.5 releases did not support importing multiple features on the same future import line:
```
# Good
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import with_statement

# Bad
from __future__ import absolute_import, with_statement
```
(Note that this rule does not apply if the package does not include support for Python 2.5)
Note that we use "new-style` relative imports when the distribution does not support Python versions below 2.5
This requires Python 2.5 or later:
```
from . import submodule
```

Contributing features requiring additional libraries

Some features like a new result backend may require additional libraries that the user must install.

We use setuptools extra_requires for this, and all new optional features that require third-party libraries must be added.

Add a new requirements file in requirements/extras
E.g. for a Cassandra backend this would be requirements/extras/cassandra.txt, and the file looks like this:
```
pycassa
```
These are pip requirement files so you can have version specifiers and multiple packages are separated by newline. A more complex example could be:
```
# pycassa 2.0 breaks Foo
pycassa>=1.0,<2.0
thrift
```
Modify setup.py
After the requirements file is added you need to add it as an option to setup.py in the extras_require section:
```
extra['extras_require'] = {
    # ...
    'cassandra': extras('cassandra.txt'),
}
```
Document the new feature in docs/includes/installation.txt
You must add your feature to the list in the Bundles section of docs/includes/installation.txt.

After you've made changes to this file you need to render the distro README file:
```
$ pip install -U requirements/pkgutils.txt
$ make readme
```

That's all that needs to be done, but remember that if your feature adds additional configuration options then these needs to be documented in docs/configuration.rst.

github:	https://github.com/abhishek776

Jamshed Vesuna

github:	https://github.com/JamshedVesuna

Packages

`Deux`

git:	https://github.com/robinhood/deux
CI:	https://travis-ci.org/#!/robinhood/deux
Windows-CI:	https://ci.appveyor.com/project/robinhood/deux
PyPI:	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deux
docs:	https://deux.readthedocs.io

Release Procedure

Updating the version number

The version number must be updated two places:

deux/__init__.py

docs/include/introduction.txt

After you have changed these files you must render the README files. There is a script to convert Sphinx syntax to generic reStructured Text syntax, and the make target readme does this for you:

$ make readme

Now commit the changes:

$ git commit -a -m "Bumps version to X.Y.Z"

and make a new version tag:

$ git tag vX.Y.Z
$ git push --tags

Releasing

Commands to make a new public stable release:

$ make distcheck  # checks pep8, autodoc index, runs tests and more
$ make dist  # NOTE: Runs git clean -xdf and removes files not in the repo.
$ python setup.py sdist upload --sign --identity='Ask Solem'
$ python setup.py bdist_wheel upload --sign --identity='Ask Solem'

If this is a new release series then you also need to do the following:

Go to the Read The Docs management interface at:

http://readthedocs.org/projects/deux
Enter "Edit project"

Change default branch to the branch of this series, e.g. 2.4 for series 2.4.
Also add the previous version under the "versions" tab.

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