Contributing Guide

Contributions are welcome, and greatly appreciated! Follow the tag of good first issue for the issues for beginner.

Pull Request Guide

  1. Is this the first pull request that you're making with GitHub? If so, read the guide Making a pull request to an open-source project.

  2. Include "resolves #issue_number" in the description of the pull request if applicable. Briefly describe your contribution.

  3. Submit the pull request from the first day of your development and create it as a draft pull request. Click ready for review when finished and passed the all the checks.

  4. For the case of bug fixes, add new test cases which would fail before your bug fix.

Setup Environment

virtualenv

Install Virtualenvwrapper. Create a new virtualenv named ak based on python3. 

mkvirtualenv -p python3 ak
Please use this virtualenv for development.

Installation

Clone the repo. Go to the repo directory. Run the following commands. 

workon ak

pip install -e ".[tests]"
pip uninstall autokeras
add2virtualenv .

pip install mkdocs
pip install mkdocs-material
pip install autopep8
pip install git+https://github.com/gabrieldemarmiesse/typed_api.git@0.1.1

Run Tests

Activate the virtualenv. Go to the repo directory Run the following lines to run the tests.

Run all the tests. 

pytest tests

Run all the unit tests. 

pytest tests/autokeras

Run all the integration tests. 

pytest tests/integration_tests

Code Style

Option 1: Automatic

It automatically formats the code every time you commit. To setup: 1. Install Docker. 2. Run cd .git/hooks && ln -s -f ../../shell/pre-commit.sh pre-commit from the repo directory.

Option 2: Manually

You can run the following manually every time you want to format your code. 1. Run shell/format.sh to format your code. 2. Run shell/lint.sh to check.

Docstrings

Docstrings should follow our style. Just check the style of other docstrings in AutoKeras.