Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

You can contribute in many ways:

Types of Contributions

Report Bugs

If you are reporting a bug, please include:

  • Your operating system name and version.
  • Any details about your local setup that might be helpful in troubleshooting.
  • Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.

Fix Bugs

See section about pull requests.

Implement Features

See section about pull requests.

Write Documentation

CosmoHammer could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official CosmoHammer docs, in docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts, articles, and such.

Submit Feedback

If you are proposing a feature:

  • Explain in detail how it would work.
  • Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
  • Remember that this is a volunteer-driven project, and that contributions are welcome :)

Pull Request Guidelines

Before you can start to contribute please contact Uwe Schmitt to create an user account to access our gitlab instance.

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

  1. The pull request should include tests.
  2. If the pull request adds functionality, the docs should be updated. Put your new functionality into a function with a docstring, and add the feature to the list in README.rst.
  3. The pull request should work for Python 2.7, and 3.4, and for PyPy. make sure that the tests pass for all supported Python versions.

Tips

To run a subset of tests:

$ py.test test/test_CosmoHammerSampler.py