contributing.md

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to wee-slack!

Requirements

• git
• pipenv

Activating the development environment

The development environment contains a few useful tools. Before testing or working on wee-slack, the development environment should be activated. This will ensure you have access to the necessary development tools.

$ cd /path/to/wee-slack
$ pipenv shell

# Install the required development dependencies
$ pipenv install --dev

The rest of this document assumes that the development environment has been activated, and that you have the latest development dependencies installed.

Testing

Tests are executed with pytest. To run the tests, first navigate to the project root, and then execute:

$ pytest

Updating dependencies

It's important to keep our dependencies up-to-date over time. Because we support multiple versions of Python, we avoid committing the Pipfile.lock file (which is added in .gitignore), in addition to avoiding pinning versions of packages.

To update the dependencies installed in your local virtual environment:

# Check for upstream updates
$ pipenv update --outdated

# Want to update everything?
$ pipenv update

# Want to update one package at a time?
$ pipenv update <pkg>

It's important to run the tests after updating dependencies to ensure that the updated dependencies have not broken the build.