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@@ -9,40 +9,47 @@ your interest!
We maintain a [loose roadmap on our wiki](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/wiki/Roadmap), but
that's open to a lot of change and input.
-# Guidelines
+## Guidelines
When contributing code, please consider all the parts that are typically required:
-- [Unit tests](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/master/gitlint/tests) (automatically
+- [Unit tests](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/gitlint/tests) (automatically
[enforced by CI](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/actions)). Please consider writing
new ones for your functionality, not only updating existing ones to make the build pass.
-- [Integration tests](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/master/qa) (also automatically
+- [Integration tests](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/qa) (also automatically
[enforced by CI](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/actions)). Again, please consider writing new ones
for your functionality, not only updating existing ones to make the build pass.
-- [Documentation](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/master/docs)
+- [Documentation](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/docs)
Since we want to maintain a high standard of quality, all of these things will have to be done regardless before code
can make it as part of a release. If you can already include them as part of your PR, it's a huge timesaver for us
and it's likely that your PR will be merged and released a lot sooner. Thanks!
-# Development #
+!!! Important
+ **On the topic of releases**: Gitlint releases typically go out when there's either enough new features and fixes
+ to make it worthwhile or when there's a critical fix for a bug that fundamentally breaks gitlint. While the amount
+ of overhead of doing a release isn't huge, it's also not zero. In practice this means that it might take weeks
+ or months before merged code actually gets released - we know that can be frustrating but please understand it's
+ a well-considered trade-off based on available time.
+
+## Development
There is a Vagrantfile in this repository that can be used for development.
-```bash
+```sh
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
```
Or you can choose to use your local environment:
-```bash
+```sh
virtualenv .venv
pip install -r requirements.txt -r test-requirements.txt -r doc-requirements.txt
python setup.py develop
```
To run tests:
-```bash
+```sh
./run_tests.sh # run unit tests and print test coverage
./run_test.sh gitlint/tests/test_body_rules.py::BodyRuleTests::test_body_missing # run a single test
./run_tests.sh --no-coverage # run unit tests without test coverage
@@ -54,16 +61,14 @@ To run tests:
./run_tests.sh --git # inception: run gitlint against itself
./run_tests.sh --lint # run pylint checks
./run_tests.sh --all # Run unit, integration, pep8 and gitlint checks
-
-
```
-The ```Vagrantfile``` comes with ```virtualenv```s for python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and pypy2.
+The `Vagrantfile` comes with `virtualenv`s for python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and pypy2.
You can easily run tests against specific python environments by using the following commands *inside* of the Vagrant VM:
-```
+```sh
./run_tests.sh --envs 27 # Run the unit tests against Python 2.7
-./run_tests.sh --envs 27,35,pypy2 # Run the unit tests against Python 2.7, Python 3.5 and Pypy2
-./run_tests.sh --envs 27,35 --pep8 # Run pep8 checks against Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 (also works for ```--git```, ```--integration```, ```--pep8```, ```--stats``` and ```--lint```).
+./run_tests.sh --envs 27,37,pypy2 # Run the unit tests against Python 2.7, Python 3.7 and Pypy2
+./run_tests.sh --envs 27,37 --pep8 # Run pep8 checks against Python 2.7 and Python 3.7 (also works for --git, --integration, --pep8, --stats and --lint.
./run_tests.sh --envs all --all # Run all tests against all environments
./run_tests.sh --all-env --all # Idem: Run all tests against all environments
```
@@ -71,29 +76,29 @@ You can easily run tests against specific python environments by using the follo
!!! important
Gitlint commits and pull requests are gated on all of our tests and checks.
-# Packaging #
+## Packaging
To see the package description in HTML format
-```
+```sh
pip install docutils
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py > output.html
```
-# Documentation #
+## Documentation
We use [mkdocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) for generating our documentation from markdown.
To use it, do the following outside of the vagrant box (on your host machine):
-```bash
+```sh
pip install -r doc-requirements.txt # install doc requirements
mkdocs serve
```
Then access the documentation website on your host machine on [http://localhost:8000]().
-# Tools #
-We keep a small set of scripts in the ```tools/``` directory:
+## Tools
+We keep a small set of scripts in the `tools/` directory:
```sh
tools/create-test-repo.sh # Create a test git repo in your /tmp directory
@@ -101,7 +106,7 @@ tools/windows/create-test-repo.bat # Windows: create git test repo
tools/windows/run_tests.bat # Windows run unit tests
```
-# Contrib rules
+## Contrib rules
Since gitlint 0.12.0, we support [Contrib rules](../contrib_rules): community contributed rules that are part of gitlint
itself. Thanks for considering to add a new one to gitlint!
@@ -110,13 +115,13 @@ Then, we suggest taking the following approach to add a Contrib rule:
1. **Write your rule as a [user-defined rule](../user_defined_rules)**. In terms of code, Contrib rules are identical to
user-defined rules, they just happen to have their code sit within the gitlint codebase itself.
-2. **Add your user-defined rule to gitlint**. You should put your file(s) in the [gitlint/contrib/rules](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/master/gitlint/contrib/rules) directory.
-3. **Write unit tests**. The gitlint codebase contains [Contrib rule test files you can copy and modify](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/master/gitlint/tests/contrib).
-4. **Write documentation**. In particular, you should update the [gitlint/docs/contrib_rules.md](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/blob/master/docs/contrib_rules.md) file with details on your Contrib rule.
+2. **Add your user-defined rule to gitlint**. You should put your file(s) in the [gitlint/contrib/rules](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/gitlint/contrib/rules) directory.
+3. **Write unit tests**. The gitlint codebase contains [Contrib rule test files you can copy and modify](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/tree/main/gitlint/tests/contrib/rules).
+4. **Write documentation**. In particular, you should update the [gitlint/docs/contrib_rules.md](https://github.com/jorisroovers/gitlint/blob/main/docs/contrib_rules.md) file with details on your Contrib rule.
5. **Create a Pull Request**: code review typically requires a bit of back and forth. Thanks for your contribution!
-## Contrib rule requirements
+### Contrib rule requirements
If you follow the steps above and follow the existing gitlint conventions wrt naming things, you should already be fairly close to done.
In case you're looking for a slightly more formal spec, here's what gitlint requires of Contrib rules.