Contribution Guidelines
Environment Configuration
It is recommended that you use a virtual environment for development.
VENV
Create a new python virtualenv and activate it:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Anaconda
conda create --name pi_monitor python=3.7 --yes
conda activate pi_monitor
Requirements
Install the requirements for the application:
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Install the Module
Install the module in an editable mode:
pip install -e .
Run pi-monitor -h and verify that the help is displayed.
Contributing
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature') - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature) - Open a Pull Request
Formatting and Linting
This repository is configured to use pre-commit to check code, including Black and Flake8 to format and lint code. It is always good to format before commiting changes.
To format:
> black .
To execute flake8 across your changes
> flake8 .
To check your files before committing:
> pre-commit run
Documentation
This repository uses mkdocs to generate the documentation site, along with mkdocsstrings-python to extract documentation from code comments. This project uses Google-formatted docstrings to generate, so please follow that standard when documenting code.
Your contribution should be documented. You can generate documentation locally using the following commands.
> pip install -r requirements-mkdocs.txt
> mkdocs serve
The documentation site is updated when new releases are published in Github.