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Gabbi gets better because of the contributions from the people who use it. These contributions come in many forms:
- Joining the #gabbi channel on Freenode IRC at freenode.net and having a chat.
- Improvements to make the documentation more complete, more correct and typo free.
- Reporting and reviewing bugs in the issues
- Providing pull requests containing fixes and new features. See below for guidelines.
If you have an idea for a new feature it is best to review the Ideas wiki page and the existing issues and pull requests to see if there is existing work you can contribute to. It's also worthwhile to ask around in IRC.
In general the default stance with gabbi is to avoid adding new features if we can come up with some way to use the existing features to solve the requirements of your tests. This helps to keep the test format as clean and readable as possible.
If you reach an impasse, create an issue and provide as much info as you can about your situation and together we can try to figure it out.
Pull Requests
If you want to make a pull request, fork the gabbi repository and create a new branch that will contain your changes. Name the branch something meaningful and related to your change.
You should provide verbose commit messages on each of your commits. You should not feel obliged to squash your commits into one commit. We want to the see the full expression of your process and thinking.
When you push your branch back to Github please never force push.
If your pull request receives some comments and you need to make some changes, please do them as an additional commit on the branch used for the pull request.
Any code you submit should follow the rules of
pep8. You can test that
it does by running tox -epep8 in your checkout. Note that when you
run that the code will also be evaluated to be sure it follows some
standards established in the OpenStack development community (mostly
to do with import handling and line breaks).