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HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO TQDM
TL;DR: Skip to [QUICK DEV SUMMARY]
This file describes how to
- contribute changes to the project, and
- upload released to the PyPI repository.
Most of the management commands have been directly placed inside the Makefile:
make [<alias>] # on UNIX-like environments
python -m pymake [<alias>] # if make is unavailable
The latter depends on py-make>=0.1.0
.
Use the alias help
(or leave blank) to list all available aliases.
HOW TO COMMIT CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions to the project are made using the "Fork & Pull" model. The typical steps would be:
- create an account on github
- fork
tqdm
- make a local clone:
git clone https://github.com/your_account/tqdm.git
- make changes on the local copy
- test (see below) and commit changes
git commit -a -m "my message"
push
to your GitHub account:git push origin
- create a Pull Request (PR) from your GitHub fork (go to your fork's webpage and click on "Pull Request." You can then add a message to describe your proposal.)
WHAT CODE LAYOUT SHOULD I FOLLOW?
Don't worry too much - maintainers can help reorganise contributions. However it would be helpful to bear in mind:
- The standard core of
tqdm
, i.e.tqdm.std.tqdm
- must have no dependencies apart from pure python built-in standard libraries
- must have negligible impact on performance
- should have 100% coverage by unit tests
- should be appropriately commented
- should have well-formatted docstrings for functions
- under 76 chars (incl. initial spaces) to avoid linebreaks in terminal pagers
- use two spaces between variable name and colon, specify a type, and most likely state that it's optional:
VAR<space><space>:<space>TYPE[, optional]
- use [default: ...] for default values of keyword arguments
- will not break backward compatibility unless there is a very good reason
- e.g. breaking py26 compatibility purely in favour of minor readability changes (such as converting
dict(a=1)
to{'a': 1}
) is not a good enough reason
- e.g. breaking py26 compatibility purely in favour of minor readability changes (such as converting
- API changes should be discussed carefully
- remember, with millions of downloads per month,
tqdm
must be extremely fast and reliable
- Any other kind of change may be included in a (possibly new) submodule
- submodules are likely single python files under the main tqdm/ directory
- submodules extending
tqdm.std.tqdm
or any other module (e.g.tqdm.notebook.tqdm
,tqdm.gui.tqdm
) - CLI wrapper
tqdm.cli
- if a newly added
tqdm.std.tqdm
option is not supported by the CLI, append totqdm.cli.UNSUPPORTED_OPTS
- if a newly added
- can implement anything from experimental new features to support for third-party libraries such as
pandas
,numpy
, etc. - submodule maturity
- alpha: experimental; missing unit tests, comments, and/or feedback; raises
tqdm.TqdmExperimentalWarning
- beta: well-used; commented, perhaps still missing tests
- stable: >10 users; commented, 80% coverage
- alpha: experimental; missing unit tests, comments, and/or feedback; raises
.meta/
- A "hidden" folder containing helper utilities not strictly part of the
tqdm
distribution itself
- A "hidden" folder containing helper utilities not strictly part of the
TESTING
Once again, don't worry too much - tests are automated online, and maintainers can also help.
To test functionality (such as before submitting a Pull Request), there are a number of unit tests.
Standard unit tests
The standard way to run the tests:
- install
tox
cd
to the root of thetqdm
directory (in the same folder as this file)- run the following command:
[python -m py]make test
# or:
tox --skip-missing-interpreters
This will build the module and run the tests in a virtual environment. Errors and coverage rates will be output to the console/log. (Ignore missing interpreters errors - these are due to the local machine missing certain versions of Python.)
Note: to install all versions of the Python interpreter that are specified
in tox.ini,
you can use MiniConda
to install a minimal setup. You must also ensure
that each distribution has an alias to call the Python interpreter
(e.g. python312
for Python 3.12's interpreter).
Alternative unit tests with pytest
Alternatively, use pytest
to run the tests just for the current Python version:
- install test requirements:
[python -m py]make install_test
- run the following command:
[python -m py]make alltests
MANAGE A NEW RELEASE
This section is intended for the project's maintainers and describes
how to build and upload a new release. Once again,
[python -m py]make [<alias>]
will help.
Also consider pip install
ing development utilities:
[python -m py]make install_build
at a minimum, or a more thorough conda env create
.
Pre-commit Hook
It's probably a good idea to use the pre-commit
(pip install pre-commit
) helper.
Run pre-commit install
for convenient local sanity-checking.
Semantic Versioning
The tqdm
repository managers should:
- follow the Semantic Versioning convention for tagging
Checking pyproject.toml
To check that the pyproject.toml
file is compliant with PyPI
requirements (e.g. version number; reStructuredText in README.rst
) use:
[python -m py]make testsetup
To upload just metadata (including overwriting mistakenly uploaded metadata) to PyPI, use:
[python -m py]make pypimeta
Merging Pull Requests
This section describes how to cleanly merge PRs.
1 Rebase
From your project repository, merge and test
(replace pr-branch-name
as appropriate):
git fetch origin
git checkout -b pr-branch-name origin/pr-branch-name
git rebase master
If there are conflicts:
git mergetool
git rebase --continue
2 Push
Update branch with the rebased history:
git push origin pr-branch-name --force
Non maintainers can stop here.
Note: NEVER just git push --force
(this will push all local branches,
overwriting remotes).
3 Merge
git checkout master
git merge --no-ff pr-branch-name
4 Test
[python -m py]make alltests
5 Push to master
git push origin master
Building a Release and Uploading to PyPI
Formally publishing requires additional steps: testing and tagging.
Test
Ensure that all online CI tests have passed.
Tag
- ensure the version has been tagged.
The tag format is
v{major}.{minor}.{patch}
, for example:v4.4.1
. The current commit's tag is used in the version checking process. If the current commit is not tagged appropriately, the version will display asv{major}.{minor}.{patch}.dev{N}+g{commit_hash}
.
Upload
GitHub Actions (GHA) CI should automatically do this after pushing tags. Manual instructions are given below in case of failure.
Build tqdm
into a distributable python package:
[python -m py]make build
This will generate several builds in the dist/
folder. On non-windows
machines the windows exe
installer may fail to build. This is normal.
Finally, upload everything to PyPI. This can be done easily using the twine module:
[python -m py]make pypi
Also, the new release can (should) be added to GitHub by creating a new
release from the web interface;
uploading packages from the dist/
folder
created by [python -m py]make build
.
The wiki can be automatically updated with GitHub release notes by
running make
within the wiki repository.
Docker images may be uploaded to https://hub.docker.com/r/tqdm/tqdm.
Assuming docker
is
installed:
make -B docker
docker login
docker push tqdm/tqdm:latest
docker push tqdm/tqdm:$(docker run -i --rm tqdm/tqdm -v)
Snaps may be uploaded to https://snapcraft.io/tqdm.
Assuming snapcraft
is installed (snap install snapcraft --classic --beta
):
make snap
snapcraft login
snapcraft push tqdm*.snap --release stable
Notes
- you can also test on the PyPI test servers
test.pypi.org
before the real deployment - in case of a mistake, you can delete an uploaded release on PyPI, but you cannot re-upload another with the same version number
- in case of a mistake in the metadata on PyPI (e.g. bad README),
updating just the metadata is possible:
[python -m py]make pypimeta
Updating Websites
The most important file is .readme.rst
, which should always be kept up-to-date
and in sync with the in-line source documentation. This will affect all of the
following:
README.rst
(generated bymkdocs.py
duringmake build
)- The main repository site which automatically
serves the latest
README.rst
as well as links to all of GitHub's features. This is the preferred online referral link fortqdm
. - The PyPI mirror which automatically
serves the latest release built from
README.rst
as well as links to past releases. - Many external web crawlers.
Additionally (less maintained), there exists:
- A wiki which is publicly editable.
- The gh-pages project which is built from the gh-pages branch, which is built using asv.
- The gh-pages root which is built from a separate github.io repo.
Helper Bots
There are some helpers in .github/workflows to assist with maintenance.
- Comment Bot
- allows maintainers to write
/tag vM.m.p commit_hash
in an issue/PR to create a tag
- allows maintainers to write
- Post Release
- automatically updates the wiki
- automatically updates the gh-pages root
- Benchmark
- automatically updates the gh-pages project
QUICK DEV SUMMARY
For experienced devs, once happy with local master, follow the steps below. Much is automated so really it's steps 1-5, then 11(a).
- test (
[python -m py]make alltests
or rely onpre-commit
) git commit [--amend] # -m "bump version"
git push
- wait for tests to pass a) in case of failure, fix and go back to (1)
git tag vM.m.p && git push --tags
or comment/tag vM.m.p commit_hash
[AUTO:GHA]
[python -m py]make distclean
[AUTO:GHA]
[python -m py]make build
[AUTO:GHA]
upload to PyPI. either: a)[python -m py]make pypi
, or b)twine upload -s -i $(git config user.signingkey) dist/tqdm-*
[AUTO:GHA]
upload to docker hub: a)make -B docker
b)docker push tqdm/tqdm:latest
c)docker push tqdm/tqdm:$(docker run -i --rm tqdm/tqdm -v)
[AUTO:GHA]
upload to snapcraft: a)make snap
, and b)snapcraft push tqdm*.snap --release stable
- Wait for GHA to draft a new release on https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/releases
a) replace the commit history with helpful release notes, and click publish
b)
[AUTO:GHA]
attachdist/tqdm-*
binaries (usually only*.whl*
) [SUB][AUTO:GHA-rel]
runmake
in thewiki
submodule to update release notes[SUB][AUTO:GHA-rel]
runmake deploy
in thedocs
submodule to update website[SUB][AUTO:GHA-rel]
accept the automated PR in thefeedstock
submodule to update conda[AUTO:GHA-rel]
update the gh-pages project benchmarks a)[python -m py]make testasvfull
b)asv gh-pages
Key:
[AUTO:GHA]
: GitHub Actions CI should automatically do this aftergit push --tags
(5)[AUTO:GHA-rel]
: GitHub Actions CI should automatically do this after release (11a)[SUB]
: Requires one-timemake submodules
to clonedocs
,wiki
, andfeedstock