CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue with owner or other contributers.

1. Keep your Fork up to date

• Before statrting development of any new feature, Always check if this repo is ahead in commits as compared to your fork.
• It is a good practice to always keep your fork up-to-date before starting development of features/fixes to avoid merge conflicts.
• Update your fork using following code snippet.

# Add a new remote repo called as screenipy_upstream
git remote add screenipy_upstream https://github.com/pranjal-joshi/Screeni-py.git

# Sync your fork before starting work
git fetch screenipy_upstream
git checkout <BRANCH_YOU_ARE_WORKING_ON>
git merge screenipy_upstream/<BRANCH_FROM_THIS_REPO_YOU_WANT_TO_MERGE_IN_YOUR_BRANCH>

2. Install Project Dependencies

• This project uses TA-Lib. Please visit the hyperlink for the official guide of installation.
• This Project requires Python 3.9 environment setup. Click Here to Download
• Install python dependencies by running pip install -r requirements.txt in the root directory of this project.

3. Create Dependency Requirements

1. Install pip-chill by running pip install pip-chill which is a developer friendly version of classic pip freeze.
2. Update the requirements.txt file by running pip-chill --all --no-version -v > requirements.txt.
3. Ensure to uncomment all the dependency modules from the requirements.txt

4. Testing Code Locally

1. Update the test-cases as per the new features from test/screenipy_test.py if required.
2. Run a test locally with pytest -v and ensure that all tests are passed.
3. In case of a failure, Rectify code or Consider opening an issue for further discussion.

5. Pull Request Process

1. Ensure that dependecy list have been generated in the requirements.txt using above section.
2. Ensure that all test-cases are passed locally.
3. If you are contributing new feature or a bug-fix, Always create a Pull Request to new-features branch as it have workflows to test the source before merging with the main.