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Development process
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Here's the long and short of it:
1. If you are a first-time contributor:
* Go to `https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image
<http://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image>`_ and click the
"fork" button to create your own copy of the project.
* Clone the project to your local computer:
``git clone git@github.com:john_doe/scikit-image.git``
* Add origin and user branches:
``git remote rm origin``
``git remote add origin git@github.com:scikit-image/scikit-image.git``
``git remote add john_doe git@github.com:john_doe/scikit-image.git``
Now, ``origin`` refers to the ``scikit-image`` repository and
``john_doe`` (your username) to yours.
2. Develop your contribution:
* Pull the latest changes from upstream
(``git checkout master ; git pull origin master``)
* Create a branch for the feature you want to work on. Since the
branch name will appear in the merge message, use a sensible name
such as 'transform-speedups':
``git checkout -b transform-speedups``
* Commit locally as you progress (``git add`` and ``git commit``)
3. To submit your contribution:
* Push your changes back to GitHub:
``git push john_doe transform-speedups``.
* Go to GitHub. The new branch will show up with a Pull Request button--click
it.
* If you want, post on the `mailing list
<http://groups.google.com/group/scikit-image>`_ to explain your changes or
to ask for review.
For a more detailed discussion, read these :doc:`detailed documents
<gitwash/index>` on how to use Git with ``scikit-image``
(`<http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/gitwash/index.html>`_).
.. note::
Do *not* ever merge the main branch into yours. If GitHub indicates that
the Pull Request can no longer be merged automatically, rebase onto master::
git fetch origin/master
git rebase origin/master
(If you are curious, here's a further discussion on
the `dangers of rebasing <http://tinyurl.com/lll385>`__. Also
see this `LWN article <http://tinyurl.com/nqcbkj>`__.)
* To reviewers: add a short explanation of what a branch did to the merge
message and, if closing a bug, also add "Closes gh-123" where 123 is the
bug number.
Guidelines
----------
* All code should have tests (see `test coverage`_ below for more details).
* All code should be documented, to the same
`standard <http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines>`_
as NumPy and SciPy.
* For new functionality, always add an example to the
gallery.
* No changes should be committed without review. Ask on the
`mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/scikit-image>`_ if
you get no response to your pull request.
**Never merge your own pull request.**
* Examples in the gallery should have a maximum figure width of 8 inches.
Stylistic Guidelines
--------------------
* Set up your editor to remove trailing whitespace. Follow `PEP08
<www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`__. Check code with pyflakes / flake8.
* Use numpy data types instead of strings (``np.uint8`` instead of
``"uint8"``).
* Use the following import conventions::
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
cimport numpy as cnp # in Cython code
* When documenting array parameters, use ``image : (M, N) ndarray``,
``image : (M, N, 3) ndarray`` and then refer to ``M`` and ``N`` in the
docstring.
* Functions should support all input image dtypes. Use utility functions such
as ``img_as_float`` to help convert to an appropriate type. The output
format can be whatever is most efficient. This allows us to string together
several functions into a pipeline, e.g.::
hough(canny(my_image))
* Use `Py_ssize_t` as data type for all indexing, shape and size variables in
C/C++ and Cython code.
Test coverage
-------------
Tests for a module should ideally cover all code in that module,
i.e., statement coverage should be at 100%.
To measure the test coverage, install
`coverage.py <http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/>`__
(using ``easy_install coverage``) and then run::
$ make coverage
This will print a report with one line for each file in `skimage`,
detailing the test coverage::
Name Stmts Exec Cover Missing
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
skimage/color/colorconv 77 77 100%
skimage/filter/__init__ 1 1 100%
...
Bugs
----
Please `report bugs on GitHub <https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues>`_.