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Welcome!

We are looking forward to changes and improvement to this package. Before you contribute, please read the Code of Conduct.

Recognition model

Before submitting a pull request, please add your name and information in alphabetic order (after the first name) to .zenodo.json. You will get credited as an author of the next release of the package.

Repository structure

  • src contains all the functions, types, and methods
  • tests contains the unit tests and some integration tests
  • docs contains the documentation
    1. please use julia docs/_weave/make.jl to update the webpage and the README
    2. the notebooks go in notebook (also compile them, and update the README)

Don't know where to start?

  • report a bug or suggest an improvement -- open an issue on GitHub
  • write a vignette -- used GBIF.jl to do something? Put a Jupyter notebook in docs/notebooks, and add it to the README
  • improve the documentation -- all functions have a docstring where they are declared, and improving them is a great way to get started

Setting up your environment

Have a look at the current Julia documentation.

EMOJIS!

Please use emojis, this helps visually sorting through the commits.

If the commit is about... ...then use Example
Work in progress :construction: 🚧 new graphics
Bug fix :bug: 🐛 mean fails if NA
Code maintenance :wrench: 🔧 fix variable names
New test :rotating_light: 🚨 wget JSON resource
New data :bar_chart: 📊 example pollination network
New feature :sparkles: ✨ (anything amazing)
Documentation :books: 📚 null models wrapper
Performance improvement :racehorse: 🐎 parallelizes null model by default
Upcoming release :package: 📦 v1.0.2

Workflow

This section describes the general steps to make sure that your contribution is integrated rapidly. The general workflow is as follows:

  1. Fork the repository (see Branches, etc. below)
  2. Create an explicitly named branch from develop (if present) or master
  3. Create a pull request even if you haven't pushed code yet
  4. Be as explicit as possible on your goals
  5. Do not squash / rebase commits while you work -- we will do so when merging

Pull requests

Creating a pull request before you push any code will signal that you are interested in contributing to the project. Once this is done, push often, and be explicit about what the commits do (see commits, below). This gives the opportunity for feedback during your work, and allow for tweaks in what you are doing.

A good pull request (in addition to satisfying to all of the criteria below) is:

  1. Single purpose - it should do one thing, and one thing only
  2. Short - it should ideally involve less than 250 lines of code
  3. Limited in scope - it should ideally not span more than a handful of files
  4. Well tested and well documented
  5. Written in a style similar to the rest of the codebase

This will ensure that your contribution is rapidly reviewed and evaluated.

Branches, etc.

The tagged versions of anything on master are stable releases. The master branch itself is the latest version, but it must always work (after the first tagged release). For more intensive development, use the develop branch, or feature-specific branches. All significant branches are under continuous integration and code coverage analysis.

Versioning

We use semantic versioning (major.minor.patch). Anything that adds no new feature should increase the patch number, new non-API-breaking changes should increase minor, and major changes should increase major. Any increase of a higher level resets the number after it (e.g, 0.3.1 becomes 1.0.0 for the first major release). It is highly recommended that you do not start working on API-breaking changes without having received a go from us first.