All patches and comments are welcome. Please squash your changes to logical
commits before using git-format-patch and git-send-email to
patches@git.madduck.net.
If you'd read over the Git project's submission guidelines and adhered to them,
I'd be especially grateful.
1 # Contributing to *Black*
3 Welcome! Happy to see you willing to make the project better. Have you
4 read the entire [user documentation](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
10 In terms of inspiration, *Black* is about as configurable as *gofmt*.
13 Bug reports and fixes are always welcome! Please follow the [issue
14 template on GitHub](https://github.com/python/black/issues/new) for best
17 Before you suggest a new feature or configuration knob, ask yourself why
18 you want it. If it enables better integration with some workflow, fixes
19 an inconsistency, speeds things up, and so on - go for it! On the other
20 hand, if your answer is "because I don't like a particular formatting"
21 then you're not ready to embrace *Black* yet. Such changes are unlikely
22 to get accepted. You can still try but prepare to be disappointed.
27 Development on the latest version of Python is preferred. As of this
28 writing it's 3.6.5. You can use any operating system. I am using macOS
29 myself and CentOS at work.
31 Install all development dependencies using:
33 $ pipenv install --dev
37 If you haven't used `pipenv` before but are comfortable with virtualenvs,
38 just run `pip install pipenv` in the virtualenv you're already using and
39 invoke the command above from the cloned *Black* repo. It will do the
42 Before submitting pull requests, run tests with:
44 $ python setup.py test
50 If you're fixing a bug, add a test. Run it first to confirm it fails,
51 then fix the bug, run it again to confirm it's really fixed.
53 If adding a new feature, add a test. In fact, always add a test. But
54 wait, before adding any large feature, first open an issue for us to
55 discuss the idea first.
60 Thanks again for your interest in improving the project! You're taking
61 action when most people decide to sit and watch.