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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:your-username/scikit-image.git
* Add upstream repository::
git remote add upstream git@github.com:scikit-image/scikit-image.git
* Now, you have remote repositories named:
- ``upstream``, which refers to the ``scikit-image`` repository
- ``origin``, which refers to your personal fork
2. Develop your contribution:
* Pull the latest changes from upstream::
git checkout master
git pull upstream 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 your fork on GitHub::
git push origin 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>`_).
4. Review process:
* Reviewers (the other developers and interested community members) will
write inline and/or general comments on your Pull Request (PR) to improve
the implementation and the documentation. Everyone has their code reviewed
in the same manner, it should not discourage you to contribute and it is
actually a chance to improve your coding skills. Code review ensures high
quality code, homogeneous style and optimal performance.
* To update your pull request, make your changes on your local repository
and commit. As soon as those changes are pushed up to the same branch as
before, the pull request will be automatically updated.
* `Travis-CI <http://travis-ci.org/>`__, a continuous integration service
is triggered after each Pull Request update, to build the code, run the
unittests, measure the code coverage and check the coding style (PEP8) of
your branch.
.. note::
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.
Divergence between ``upstream master`` and your feature branch
..............................................................
Do *not* ever merge the main branch into yours. If GitHub indicates that the
branch of your Pull Request can no longer be merged automatically, rebase
onto master::
git checkout master
git pull upstream master
git checkout transform-speedups
git rebase master
If any conflicts occur, fix the according files and continue::
git add conflict-file1 conflict-file2
git rebase --continue
However, you should only rebase your own branches and must generally not
rebase any branch which you collaborate on with someone else.
Finally, you must push your rebased branch::
git push --force origin transform-speedups
(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>`__.)
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``
and then refer to ``M`` and ``N`` in the docstring, if necessary.
* 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%
...
Activate Travis-CI for your fork (optional)
-------------------------------------------
Travis-CI checks all unittests in the project to prevent breakage.
Before sending a pull request, you may want to check that Travis-CI
successfully passes all tests. To do so,
* Go to `Travis-CI <http://travis-ci.org/>`__ and follow the Sign In link at the top
* Go to your `profile page <https://travis-ci.org/profile>`__ and switch on your
scikit-image fork
It corresponds to steps one and two in
`Travis-CI documentation <http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/getting-started/>`__
(Step three is already done in scikit-image).
Thus, as soon as you push your code to your fork, it will trigger Travis-CI,
and you will receive an email notification when the process is done.
Bugs
----
Please `report bugs on GitHub <https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues>`_.