Contributing

Contributions to gcell are welcome! This section of the docs provides some guidelines and tips to follow when contributing.

• Contributing code
  • Development workflow
  • Code style
• Getting set up
  • Working with git
    • Forking and cloning
    • pre-commit
    • Creating a branch for your feature
    • Open a pull request
  • Development environments
• Tests
  • Running the tests
    • Miscellaneous tips
  • Writing tests
    • What to test
    • Performance
    • Plotting tests
• Documentation
  • Building the docs
  • Adding to the docs
  • docstrings format
    • Params section
    • Returns section
• Versioning
  • Semantic versioning
    • Version numbers
  • Tooling
    • Technical details
• Making a release
  • Preparing the release
  • Actually making the release
  • After making a release
  • Debugging the build process

Parts of the guidelines have been adapted from the pandas and MDAnalysis guides. These are both excellent guides and we highly recommend checking them out.