Contributing Code

Develop and test your patches locally and then push your changes up to your 'forked' repo on SourceForge, and from there send us a merge request.

Things your commits must have/do:

• follow PEP-8 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) coding guidelines

• contain appropriate tests to be added to the automated testing machinery

• pass existing tests (and/or fix existing tests that need to change)

• be divided into an appropriate number of commits, one per reasonable "chunk" of functionality

Things your patch will have before it can be merged into branch 'dev' or 'master':

• Discussion either on the mailing list or in the merge request, where you submitted it

• Code-review (possibly many times as you re-work your patches in response to discussion)

Very small patches might not need much discussion.