Contributing¶

Contributions are welcome, and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

You can contribute in many ways:

Types of Contributions¶

Submit Feedback¶

The best way to send feedback is to file an issue at https://github.com/scopus-api/scopus/issues.

If you are proposing a feature:

Explain in detail how it would work.
Keep the scope as narrow as possible, to make it easier to implement.
Respect the Python Code of Conduct

Report Bugs¶

Before are reporting a bug, please upgrade to the newest version (pip install scopusreport –upgrade) to verify your bug exist in the actual version as well.

Report bugs at https://github.com/scopus-api/scopus-report/issues. Please include:

Your operating system name and version (after import scopusreport in Python, type print(scopusreport.__version__).
Any details about your local setup that might be helpful in troubleshooting.
Detailed steps to reproduce the bug.

Fix Bugs¶

Look through the GitHub issues for bugs. Anything tagged with “bug” is open to whoever wants to fix it.

Implement Features¶

Look through the GitHub issues for features. Anything tagged with “enhancement” is open to whoever wants to implement it.

Write Documentation¶

This repo could always use more documentation, whether as part of the official scopus docs, in docstrings, or even on the web in blog posts, articles, and such.

Get Started!¶

Ready to contribute? Here’s how to set up scopus for local development.

Fork the scopus-report repo on GitHub.

Clone your fork locally:

$ git clone https@github.com:your_name_here/scopus-report.git

Install your local copy into a virtualenv. Assuming you have virtualenvwrapper installed, this is how you set up your fork for local development:
```
$ mkvirtualenv scopus-report
$ cd scopus-report/
$ python setup.py develop
```
Create a branch for local development:
```
$ git checkout -b name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature
```
Now you can make your changes locally.

Commit your changes and push your branch to GitHub:

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Your detailed description of your changes."
$ git push origin name-of-your-bugfix-or-feature

Submit a pull request through the GitHub website.

Pull Request Guidelines¶

Before you submit a pull request, check that it meets these guidelines:

Adhere to PEP8
Run nosetests locally python -m nose –verbose (on Windows) or nosetests3 –verbose.
The pull request should work for 3.5.