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Development Guidelines
======================
Coding Guidelines
-----------------
For all the code in Sahara we have a rule - it should pass `PEP 8`_.
To check your code against PEP 8 run:
.. sourcecode:: console
$ tox -e pep8
.. note::
For more details on coding guidelines see file ``HACKING.rst`` in the root
of Sahara repo.
Testing Guidelines
------------------
Sahara has a suite of tests that are run on all submitted code,
and it is recommended that developers execute the tests themselves to
catch regressions early. Developers are also expected to keep the
test suite up-to-date with any submitted code changes.
Unit tests are located at ``sahara/tests``.
Sahara's suite of unit tests can be executed in an isolated environment
with `Tox`_. To execute the unit tests run the following from the root of
Sahara repo:
.. sourcecode:: console
$ tox -e py27
Documentation Guidelines
------------------------
All Sahara docs are written using Sphinx / RST and located in the main repo
in ``doc`` directory. You can add/edit pages here to update
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/sahara site.
The documentation in docstrings should follow the `PEP 257`_ conventions
(as mentioned in the `PEP 8`_ guidelines).
More specifically:
1. Triple quotes should be used for all docstrings.
2. If the docstring is simple and fits on one line, then just use
one line.
3. For docstrings that take multiple lines, there should be a newline
after the opening quotes, and before the closing quotes.
4. `Sphinx`_ is used to build documentation, so use the restructured text
markup to designate parameters, return values, etc. Documentation on
the sphinx specific markup can be found here:
Run the following command to build docs locally.
.. sourcecode:: console
$ tox -e docs
After it you can access generated docs in ``doc/build/`` directory, for example,
main page - ``doc/build/html/index.html``.
To make docs generation process faster you can use:
.. sourcecode:: console
$ SPHINX_DEBUG=1 tox -e docs
or to avoid sahara reinstallation to virtual env each time you want to rebuild
docs you can use the following command (it could be executed only after
running ``tox -e docs`` first time):
.. sourcecode:: console
$ SPHINX_DEBUG=1 .tox/docs/bin/python setup.py build_sphinx
.. note::
For more details on documentation guidelines see file HACKING.rst in the root
of Sahara repo.
.. _PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
.. _PEP 257: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/
.. _Tox: http://tox.testrun.org/
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/index.html