We follow the Jupyter Contribution Workflow and the IPython Contributing Guide.
In order to test all the features of nbconvert you need to have pandoc and
TexLive installed.
In your environment pip install -e .[all] will be needed to be able to
run all of the tests and to test all of the features.
If you only want to run some of the tests run pip install -e .[test].
NbConvert includes a substantial amount of both user and API documentation.
We use sphinx to build the API documentation.
Much of the user documentation is written in Jupyter Notebooks and converted on the fly with nbsphinx.
To build nbconvert's documentation you need to have pandoc and
TexLive installed.
If you want to build the docs you will need to install the docs dependencies in addition to
the standard dependencies. You can get all of the dependencies by running pip install -e .[all] and if you want only those needed to run the docs you can access them with pip install -e .[docs].
If you are going to release a version of nbconvert you should also be capable
of testing it and building the docs.
Please follow the instructions in Testing and Documentation if you are unfamiliar with how to do so.
The rest of the release process can be found in these release instructions.