The aim of this section will be to explain how to contribute to the development of the DRM4G.
To make it easier and more accessible for anyone to play around with the DRM4G, we have decided to host our source code on GitHub.
For those of you who wish to help but don't know how, the first thing you need is a ?GitHub account.
In our project's page hit the "Fork" button at the top right corner:
This will create a copy of our repository in your account where you'll develop your own feature or implement a bugfix that you may believe is necessary. You'll be submitting changes to this one until you are certain everything works properly, at which point you can request to have your changes integrated into the DRM4G's repository.
To continue, you'll need to setup a local repository where you'll be changing the code and doing your testing. To do this you'll need your repository URL, that can be obtained adding .git to your project page or by clicking on the "Clone or download" button:
In Linux operating systems:
git init #to initialize an empty Git repository git remote add origin <your_repository_url> #to make your local repository point to your remote repository in GitHub git fetch git checkout develop #to create a local copy of the develop branch
To be consistent with our gitflow, all you'll be able to do is create feature or bugfix branches, and you'll have to follow our naming conventions to do so.
With this, you will now have DRM4G's source code at your disposal.
From here you could create branches for every new feature you'd like to include to the DRM4G, for a more in depth tutorial on how to do that, click ?here.
Once you've made the changes you wanted to, you'll want to install your version to be sure that your new feature is working properly.
Just in case you would like to try out different versions, we recommend you use a virtual environment to test it.
Before you can install and try out your own version, you'll have to build your own package:
This will create a a distribution package under a folder called dist.
Go to wherever you have your virtual environment, open a terminal and execute the following commands:
source bin/activate export DRM4G_DIR = $PWD/conf pip install path/to/drm4g/package
DRM4G_DIR is where the configuration files will be installed. More information here.
And that's it. Now you can use and test your own version of DRM4G.
For other ways to install the DRM4G, you can check here.
After you've tested that everything is in working order, it's time to update your GitHub fork.
git add .
git commit -m "Description of the changes you've made"
git push origin develop
From here you'll have to create a Pull request.
As time passes, chances are that the main DRM4G repository has had other contributors merge changes into it, so you should first update your local repository and check that there are no conflicts.
git checkout develop
git remote add github https://github.com/SantanderMetGroup/DRM4G.git #just do run this command the first time to add the main repository to the list of your remotes
git pull github develop
If there have been any changes, but there are no conflicts, you can just push your changes into your remote repository.
git push origin develop
In the case that there are conflicts, resolve them and commit the changes, after do the push to update your remote repository.
After, you just have to go to your repositories web page and click on the "New pull request" button.
A message will tell you if there are any conflicts that need to be solved or if an automatic merge is possible. Then you just have to click on the "Create pull request", give this merge a title (which will serve as the commit message if the pull request is accepted), a comment if you want (can be useful to explain in more detail why this should be integrated into the DRM4G), and click a second time on the "Create pull request" button.
Now you'll have to wait and see if the administrator of the project accepts the changes you're proposing.
Another option would be to create a new branch from the "develop" branch and then try to make a pull request from that.
git checkout develop git checkout -b new_branch #make some changes git add . git commit -m "Description of the changes you've made" git push origin new_branch
The next time you enter your repository's web page, you'll see a new button:
Click on "Compare & pull request" to perform a pull request on to the main repository. The same will happen as when clicking on "New pull request" when on a previously existing branch.
For the administrator of the DRM4G's GitHub repository:
When you see that there's a new pull request, either because you saw it on the projects page or because you received a message in your mail informing you about it, you can click on the "Pull requests" button.
