CONTRIBUTING.rst

Contributing

You can contribute to the project in multiple ways:

• Write documentation
• Implement features
• Fix bugs
• Add unit and functional tests
• Everything else you can think of

Code of Conduct

The development of this software is covered by the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces.

Bug reports

Please report bugs and feature requests at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/commit-message-validator/.

Development workflow

Before contributing, install tox and pre-commit:

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade 'tox>=4.0' pre-commit
cd commit-message-validator/
pre-commit install -t pre-commit -t commit-msg --install-hooks

This will help automate adhering to code style guidelines described below.

If you don't like using pre-commit, feel free to skip installing it, but please ensure all your commit messages and code pass all default tox checks outlined below before pushing your code.

When you're ready or if you'd like to get feedback, please provide your patches as Merge Requests on gitlab.wikimedia.org.

Coding Style

We use black and isort to format our code, so you'll need to make sure you use them when committing.

To format your code according to our guidelines before committing, run:

cd commit-message-validator/
tox -e lint

Running unit tests

Before submitting a merge request make sure that the tests and lint checks still succeed with your change. Unit tests and functional tests run in GitLab CI and passing checks are mandatory to get merge requests accepted.

# Run unit tests using all python3 versions available on your system, and
# all lint checks:
tox

# Run lint and code formatting checks:
tox -e lint

# Run unit tests in one python environment only (useful for quick testing
# during development):
tox -e py311

# List all available tox environments
tox list

Releases

A release is automatically published when a git tag is made in the gitlab.wikimedia.org repo. See our .gitlab-ci.yml for details.