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Contributing to freesurferformats

I am very happy to accept pull requests, provided you are fine with publishing your work under the license of this project. If your PR is not just a fix but changes or adds lots of code, please get in touch by opening an issue before starting the project so we can discuss it first. Development currently happens on the develop branch.

Contribution workflow

If you want to contribute something, the general workflow is:

  • Log into the Github website and fork the freesurferformats repository to your account.
  • Checkout your forked repository to your computer. You will be on the master branch. Change to the develop branch.
  • Create a new branch and name it after your feature, e.g., add_cool_new_feature or fix_issue_17.
  • Make changes to the freesurferformats code and commit them into your branch.
  • Make sure the existing unit tests are all green (see below). Adding new tests for your fix or the new features is even better.
  • Create a pull request, requesting to merge your branch into the develop branch of my freesurferformats repo.

Setting up the development environment

Most likely you already have your development environment setup the way you prefer it when you decide to contribute. If not, here is a quick way to get started.

Note that you do not have to use rstudio of follow these suggestions, any editor or IDE will do.

  • Make sure you have a recent R version installed.
  • Download and install the latest version of rstudio (I use the free RStudio Desktop Open Source Edition).
  • In your shell, change into your checkout of your fork of freesurferformats (see above) and run rstudio freesurferformats.Rproj.
  • Install the required development packages listed on the freesurferformats website.
  • In rstudio, make sure all required development packages are installed and you are ready to go:
    • Build the package including the documentation (Menu > Build > Build Source Package) and install/load it (Menu > Build > Clean and Rebuild).
    • Run the unit tests (Menu > Build > Check Package).
    • Generate the test coverage report (Item bar > Addins > Report test coverage for a package). Wait until the report shows up in the Viewer.
  • If this completed without errors, you are ready to make your changes in a new branch, as explained above.