pipenv/docs/dev/contributing.rst

Contributing to Pipenv
======================

If you're reading this, you're probably interested in contributing to Pipenv.
Thank you very much! Open source projects live-and-die based on the support
they receive from others, and the fact that you're even considering
contributing to the Pipenv project is *very* generous of you.

This document lays out guidelines and advice for contributing to this project.
If you're thinking of contributing, please start by reading this document and
getting a feel for how contributing to this project works. If you have any
questions, feel free to reach out to either `Dan Ryan`_, `Tzu-ping Chung`_,
or `Nate Prewitt`_, the primary maintainers.

.. _Dan Ryan: https://github.com/techalchemy
.. _Tzu-ping Chung: https://github.com/uranusjr
.. _Nate Prewitt: https://github.com/nateprewitt

The guide is split into sections based on the type of contribution you're
thinking of making, with a section that covers general guidelines for all
contributors.


General Guidelines
------------------

Be Cordial
~~~~~~~~~~

    **Be cordial or be on your way**. *—Kenneth Reitz*

Pipenv has one very important rule governing all forms of contribution,
including reporting bugs or requesting features. This golden rule is
"`be cordial or be on your way`_".

**All contributions are welcome**, as long as
everyone involved is treated with respect.

.. _be cordial or be on your way: https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/be-cordial-or-be-on-your-way


.. _early-feedback:

Get Early Feedback
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you are contributing, do not feel the need to sit on your contribution until
it is perfectly polished and complete. It helps everyone involved for you to
seek feedback as early as you possibly can. Submitting an early, unfinished
version of your contribution for feedback in no way prejudices your chances of
getting that contribution accepted, and can save you from putting a lot of work
into a contribution that is not suitable for the project.

Contribution Suitability
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Our project maintainers have the last word on whether or not a contribution is
suitable for Pipenv. All contributions will be considered carefully, but from
time to time, contributions will be rejected because they do not suit the
current goals or needs of the project.

If your contribution is rejected, don't despair! As long as you followed these
guidelines, you will have a much better chance of getting your next
contribution accepted.


Questions
---------

The GitHub issue tracker is for *bug reports* and *feature requests*. Please do
not use it to ask questions about how to use Pipenv. These questions should
instead be directed to `Stack Overflow`_. Make sure that your question is tagged
with the ``pipenv`` tag when asking it on Stack Overflow, to ensure that it is
answered promptly and accurately.

.. _Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/


Code Contributions
------------------


Steps for Submitting Code
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When contributing code, you'll want to follow this checklist:

#. Understand our `development philosophy`_.
#. Fork the repository on GitHub.
#. Set up your :ref:`dev-setup`
#. Run the tests (:ref:`testing`) to confirm they all pass on your system.
   If they don't, you'll need to investigate why they fail. If you're unable
   to diagnose this yourself, raise it as a bug report by following the guidelines
   in this document: :ref:`bug-reports`.
#. Write tests that demonstrate your bug or feature. Ensure that they fail.
#. Make your change.
#. Run the entire test suite again, confirming that all tests pass *including
   the ones you just added*.
#. Send a GitHub Pull Request to the main repository's ``master`` branch.
   GitHub Pull Requests are the expected method of code collaboration on this
   project.

The following sub-sections go into more detail on some of the points above.

.. _development philosophy: https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/dev/philosophy/


.. _dev-setup:

Development Setup
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To get your development environment setup, run:

.. code-block:: sh

  pip install -e .
  pipenv install --dev


This will install the repository version of Pipenv and then install the development
dependencies. Once that has completed, you can start developing.

The repository version of Pipenv must be installed over other global versions to
resolve conflicts with the ``pipenv`` folder being implicitly added to ``sys.path``.
See `pypa/pipenv#2557`_ for more details.

.. _pypa/pipenv#2557: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2557


.. _testing:

Testing
~~~~~~~

Tests are written in ``pytest`` style and can be run very simply:

.. code-block:: sh

  pytest


This will run all Pipenv tests, which can take awhile. To run a subset of the
tests, the standard pytest filters are available, such as:

- provide a directory or file: ``pytest tests/unit`` or ``pytest tests/unit/test_cmdparse.py``
- provide a keyword expression: ``pytest -k test_lock_editable_vcs_without_install``
- provide a nodeid: ``pytest tests/unit/test_cmdparse.py::test_parse``
- provide a test marker: ``pytest -m lock``


Code Review
~~~~~~~~~~~

Contributions will not be merged until they have been code reviewed. You should
implement any code review feedback unless you strongly object to it. In the
event that you object to the code review feedback, you should make your case
clearly and calmly. If, after doing so, the feedback is judged to still apply,
you must either apply the feedback or withdraw your contribution.


Package Index
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To speed up testing, tests that rely on a package index for locking and
installing use a local server that contains vendored packages in the
``tests/pypi`` directory. Each vendored package should have it's own folder
containing the necessary releases. When adding a release for a package, it is
easiest to use either the ``.tar.gz`` or universal wheels (ex: ``py2.py3-none``). If
a ``.tar.gz`` or universal wheel is not available, add wheels for all available
architectures and platforms.



Documentation Contributions
---------------------------

Documentation improvements are always welcome! The documentation files live in
the ``docs/`` directory of the codebase. They're written in
`reStructuredText`_, and use `Sphinx`_ to generate the full suite of
documentation.

When contributing documentation, please do your best to follow the style of the
documentation files. This means a soft-limit of 79 characters wide in your text
files and a semi-formal, yet friendly and approachable, prose style.

When presenting Python code, use single-quoted strings (``'hello'`` instead of
``"hello"``).

.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx-doc.org/index.html


.. _bug-reports:

Bug Reports
-----------

Bug reports are hugely important! They are recorded as `GitHub issues`_. Please
be aware of the following things when filing bug reports:

.. _GitHub issues: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues

1. Avoid raising duplicate issues. *Please* use the GitHub issue search feature
   to check whether your bug report or feature request has been mentioned in
   the past. Duplicate bug reports and feature requests are a huge maintenance
   burden on the limited resources of the project. If it is clear from your
   report that you would have struggled to find the original, that's okay, but
   if searching for a selection of words in your issue title would have found
   the duplicate then the issue will likely be closed extremely abruptly.
2. When filing bug reports about exceptions or tracebacks, please include the
   *complete* traceback. Partial tracebacks, or just the exception text, are
   not helpful. Issues that do not contain complete tracebacks may be closed
   without warning.
3. Make sure you provide a suitable amount of information to work with. This
   means you should provide:

   - Guidance on **how to reproduce the issue**. Ideally, this should be a
     *small* code sample that can be run immediately by the maintainers.
     Failing that, let us know what you're doing, how often it happens, what
     environment you're using, etc. Be thorough: it prevents us needing to ask
     further questions.
   - Tell us **what you expected to happen**. When we run your example code,
     what are we expecting to happen? What does "success" look like for your
     code?
   - Tell us **what actually happens**. It's not helpful for you to say "it
     doesn't work" or "it fails". Tell us *how* it fails: do you get an
     exception? A hang? The packages installed seem incorrect?
     How was the actual result different from your expected result?
   - Tell us **what version of Pipenv you're using**, and
     **how you installed it**. Different versions of Pipenv behave
     differently and have different bugs, and some distributors of Pipenv
     ship patches on top of the code we supply.

   If you do not provide all of these things, it will take us much longer to
   fix your problem. If we ask you to clarify these and you never respond, we
   will close your issue without fixing it.

.. _run-the-tests:

Run the tests
-------------

Three ways of running the tests are as follows:

1. ``make test`` (which uses ``docker``)
2. ``./run-tests.sh`` or ``run-tests.bat``
3. Using pipenv:

.. code-block:: console

    $ git clone https://github.com/pypa/pipenv.git
    $ cd pipenv
    $ git submodule sync && git submodule update --init --recursive
    $ pipenv install --dev
    $ pipenv run pytest

For the last two, it is important that your environment is setup correctly, and
this may take some work, for example, on a specific Mac installation, the following
steps may be needed::

    # Make sure the tests can access github
    if [ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" = "" ]
    then
       eval `ssh-agent`
       ssh-add
    fi

    # Use unix like utilities, installed with brew,
    # e.g. brew install coreutils
    for d in /usr/local/opt/*/libexec/gnubin /usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin
    do
      [[ ":$PATH:" != *":$d:"* ]] && PATH="$d:${PATH}"
    done

    export PATH

    # PIP_FIND_LINKS currently breaks test_uninstall.py
    unset PIP_FIND_LINKS