Procedure

Procedure

Initial Setup

• Fork this repository to create your own copy.
• Check out the code: git clone [email protected]:YOURUSERNAME/csbot.git; cd csbot
• Install the python headers, usually in a python-dev package in your package manager.
• Set up a virtual environment
  • With virtualenv:
    • virtualenv -p python2 virtualenv
    • source virtualenv/bin/activate
    • pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Or with virtualenvwrapper: (remember to add WORKON_HOME=~/PYTHONENVS to .bashrc)
    • mkvirtualenv -a $(pwd) -r requirements.txt -p $(which python2) csbot

Troubleshooting

fatal error: libxml/xmlversion.h: No such file or directory

Install libxml2 and libxslt (with the development headers). On Ubuntu this is sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev.

Code

• Branch early, branch often!
• Commit early, commit often! With sensible commit messages!
• Follow PEP 8 Style Guide for all Python code. Highlights:
  • 4 spaces for indentation
  • 'lower_case' for modules, functions, variables
  • 'CamelCase' for classes and exceptions
  • 'CAPITAL_LETTERS' for constants
  • pip install pep8 for a PEP 8 checker, see the Useful Hooks page for a pre-commit hook.
• Read the API documentation.
• See the Plugins page for plugin details, including conventions.

Distribute

• Please write helpful git commit messages. These guidelines are recommended
• Recommended reading: GitHub Flow
• Always fetch and merge upstream changes first. Use git rebase to avoid unnecessary merges. Then issue a pull request to HackSoc/csbot:master.