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Contributing to SigPlot

Preparing Development Environment

Using Grunt

Building SigPlot requires that you have Node.js and the Node Package Manager (npm) installed.

Node.js can be installed using the official source, using your operating-systems package manager, or by using nvm.

Once you have npm working, install Grunt with the command npm install -g grunt-cli.

# Install NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash

# Install stable Node.js
nvm install stable

# Use stable Node.js
nvm use stable

# Install Grunt
npm install -g grunt-cli grunt

Getting started

  1. Fork the SigPlot repository on GitHub.
  2. Clone the repostory that you have just forked.
  3. Create a branch with a meaningful name: git checkout -b fix-some-issue.
  4. Run npm install to fetch all of the required SigPlot dependencies.
  5. Run grunt test to ensure that your branch builds and passes all of the tests.

Writing code

All code for SigPlot is found within the js folder. Coding style is enforced using jsbeautifier during the build process. Prior to commiting your code you should cleanup your code using grunt prep. This will reformat your code and make it consistent with the SigPlot coding standards.

Please use semantic commit messages following this format:

commit-type: commit summary

Commit details as necessary...

The following commit-type values should be used:

  • feat (new feature)
  • fix (bug fix)
  • docs (changes to documentation)
  • style (formatting, missing semi colons, etc; no code change)
  • refactor (refactoring production code)
  • test (adding missing tests, refactoring tests; no production code change)
  • chore (updating grunt tasks etc; no production code change)

Running test suite

SigPlot includes an extensive set of unittests found in the test/tests.js file. There are two broad categories of test: those that exeucte without user interaction and those that require user interaction to confirm proper behavior.

Non-interactive tests can be executed by simply running grunt test. Interactive tests can be executed by running grunt web_server and then opening your webrowser to http://localhost:1337/test/test.html.

Preparing your code for submission

Prior to submitting a pull request, the following steps are recommended to prepare your branch:

  1. Fetch the latest code from the repository: git fetch origin
  2. Rebase your branch against master git rebase origin/master
  3. Run the build and test with grunt test. This must pass without the use of --force.

Using Make

Although Grunt is the canonical build system, a basic Makefile is provided for environment where Grunt cannot be used. You will need the following:

  • GNU Make
  • Java version 1.7+

If you wish to build the SigPlot API documention, you will need jsdoc installed.

Contributions

All code in this repository is under the Apache License, version 2.0.

SigPlot welcomes contributions from everyone. You will need to agree to the LGS Contributor License Agreement before your contributions can be incorporated into SigPlot.

Contributions to SigPlot should be made in the form of GitHub pull requests. Each pull request will be reviewed by a core contributor and either included in the main tree or given feedback for changes that would be required.