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Contributing to AMUSE

So you're interested in contributing code to AMUSE? Excellent!

Reporting Issues

When opening an issue to report a problem, please try and provide a minimal code example that reproduces the issue, and also include details of the operating system, compiler, and the Python, Numpy, and AMUSE versions you are using.

Contributing code

Most contributions to AMUSE are done via pull requests from GitHub users' forks of the amuse repository.

Once you open a pull request (which should be opened against the master branch, not against any of the other branches), please make sure that you include the following:

  • Code: the code you are adding

  • Tests: these are usually tests to ensure that code that previously failed now works (regression tests) or tests that cover as much as possible of the new functionality to make sure it doesn't break in future, and also returns consistent results on all platforms (since we run these tests on many platforms/configurations).

Checklist for Contributed Code

A pull request for a new feature will be reviewed to see if it meets the following requirements. For any pull request, an AMUSE maintainer can help to make sure that the pull request meets the requirements for inclusion in the package.

Scientific Quality (when applicable)

  • Is the submission relevant to AMUSE?
  • Are references included to the origin paper for the simulation code?
  • Does the code perform as expected?
  • Has the code been tested against previously existing codes in the same domain?

Code Quality

  • Is the code compatible with Python >=2.7?
  • Are there dependencies other than AMUSE, MPI, the Python Standard Library, and NumPy?
  • For compatibility reasons we prefer code that also works on older versions of Numpy, matplotlib etc.
  • Are additional dependencies handled appropiately? If possible, factor out additional dependencies or make them optional.
  • Does the code follow the AMUSE Style Guide (http://www.amusecode.org/doc/reference/style_guide.html)?

Testing

  • Are the inputs to the functions sufficiently tested?
  • Are there tests for any exceptions raised?
  • Are there tests for the expected performance?
  • Are the sources for the tests documented?
  • Does python setup.py test run without failures?

Documentation

  • Is there any information needed to be added to the docs to describe the code?

License

  • Does the code require a specific license other than the AMUSE license?
  • Are there any conflicts with this code and AMUSE?

AMUSE requirements

  • Can you checkout the pull request and repeat the examples and tests?