ticketfrei3/CONTRIBUTING.md

Kibicara Contribution Guidelines

Setup Development Environment

1. Install python>=3.7
2. Create a virtual environment with python3 -m venv .venv
3. Activate your dev environment with source .venv/bin/activate
4. Install with pip install .
5. Install development dependencies with pip install tox black
6. Add git-hook to run test and stylecheck before commmit with ln -s ../../git-hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit
7. Add git-hook to check commmit message format with ln -s ../../git-hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/commit-msg

Build and Test Cycle

• Install with pip install .
• Execute with kibicara
• Interact with Swagger REST-API Documentation: http://localhost:8000/docs
• Test and stylecheck with tox
• Fix style issues with black -S kibicara tests

Branches

• Master: The master branch tracks the last stable release.
  • Releases will be done using release tags.
  • Force push and pushes without group consent are disallowed.
  • There never should be a merge commit from development into master!
• Development: The development branch is used to add new features.
  • Only rebase of feature branches is allowed.
  • On Release the development branch will be rebased onto master and a release tag will be created on master
• Feature-Branches:
  • A feature branch will be used to develop a feature.
  • It belongs to one developer only and force push is allowed.
  • A rebase onto development is necessary to merge the feature. Code reviews are encouraged.

Write Tests

We use pytest as a test engine. It is executed by tox, so you need to run tox on the command line to run the tests.

Commit Messages

Commits should define small components. Please write your commits with the following pattern:

[core] Add censor for filtering messages #1312

Use these:

• [core] Feature for Kibicara core
• [frontend] Feature for Kibicara frontend
• [platform] Feature for platforms like Twitter, Telegram, ...
• [tests] Tests
• [misc] e.g. github action files
• #\d+ if commit is related to specific issues or merge requests

Comments

Python

We use pdoc3, which takes prose and comments automatically from the docstrings in the repository.

Use google style comments to secure correct display of your docstrings.

Please don't leave trailing whitespace or empty lines at the end of your files.

Merge Requests

The main development team does not need to make merge requests.

If you open a merge request, please include a description which explains the improvement.

Code reviews

Before a merge request gets rebased onto and merged into development, at least one person has to approve it; this also increases the number of people who know the code. So please request a review from someone from the core development team.

Implement a new Platform/Social Network

tl;dr

1. Implement the following modules in platforms/<your-platform>/:

• bot.py
• model.py
• webapi.py

2. Import your bot in kibicara/webapi/__init__.py.

Explanation

In kibicara/platforms/<your-platform>/bot.py, you write the functions through which the platform asks the social network for new messages, and publishes messages to the social network. You need to inherit the bot from the Censor class at kibicara/platformapi.py.

In kibicara/platforms/<your-platform>/model.py, you define a database layout. You will probably need to store the following things:

• authentication credentials,
• timestamps/IDs of the last seen message,
• recipients if the social network doesn't post publicly,
• platform-specific settings
• anything else your platform needs

In kibicara/platforms/<your-platform>/webapi.py, you can define HTTP routes. You will need them to:

• let admins authenticate to the social network in the kibicara web interface
• update platform-specific settings

To run the platform, you need to import the bot in kibicara/webapi/__init__.py.