Thank you for your interest in COOLEST! All types of feedback, feature proposals and contributions are highly encouraged and valued. See the Table of Contents for different ways to help and details about how this project handles them. Please make sure to read the relevant section before making your contribution.
And if you like the project, but just don't have time to contribute, that's fine. There are other easy ways to support the project and show your appreciation, which we would also be very happy about:
- Star the project
- Tweet about it
- Refer this project in your project's readme
- Mention the project in your talks and tell your friends/colleagues
- ...and use it for your own research :)
If you want to ask a question, we assume that you have read the available Documentation.
Before you ask a question, it is best to search for existing Issues that might help you. In case you have found a suitable issue and still need clarification, you can write your question in this issue. It is also advisable to search the internet for answers first.
If you then still feel the need to ask a question and need clarification, we recommend the following:
- Open an Issue.
- Provide as much context as you can about what you're running into.
- Provide project and platform versions (nodejs, npm, etc), depending on what seems relevant.
We will then take care of the issue as soon as possible.
When contributing to this project, you must agree that you have authored 100% of the content, that you have the necessary rights to the content and that the content you contribute may be provided under the project license.
A good bug report shouldn't leave others needing to chase you up for more information. Therefore, we ask you to investigate carefully, collect information and describe the issue in detail in your report. Please complete the following steps in advance to help us fix any potential bug as fast as possible.
- Make sure that you are using the latest version.
- Determine if your bug is really a bug and not an error on your side e.g. using incompatible environment components/versions (Make sure that you have read the documentation. If you are looking for support, you might want to check this section).
- Also make sure to search the internet (including Stack Overflow) to see if users outside of the GitHub community have discussed the issue.
- Collect information about the bug:
- Stack trace (Traceback)
- OS, Platform and Version (Windows, Linux, macOS, x86, ARM)
- Version of the interpreter, compiler, SDK, runtime environment, package manager, depending on what seems relevant.
- Possibly your input and the output
- Can you reliably reproduce the issue?
We use GitHub issues to track bugs and errors. If you run into an issue with the project:
- Open an Issue.
- Explain the behavior you would expect and the actual behavior.
- Please provide as much context as possible and describe the reproduction steps that someone else can follow to recreate the issue on their own. This usually includes your code. For good bug reports you should isolate the problem and create a reduced test case.
- Provide the information you collected in the previous section.
Once it's filed:
- One of the COOLEST developers will try to reproduce the issue with your provided steps. If there are no reproduction steps or no obvious way to reproduce the issue, that developer will ask you for those steps and mark the issue as
needs-repro. Bugs with theneeds-reprotag will not be addressed until they are reproduced. - If we are not able to reproduce the issue, it will be marked
needs-fix, as well as possibly other tags (such ascritical), and the issue will be left to be implemented by someone.
This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion for coolest, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines will help maintainers and the community to understand your suggestion and find related suggestions.
- Make sure that you are using the latest version of the
coolestpackage (most of the time themainbranch). - Read the documentation carefully and find out if the functionality is already covered.
- Perform a search to see if the enhancement has already been suggested. If it has, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.
- Find out whether your idea fits with the scope and aims of the project. It's up to you to make a strong case to convince the project's developers of the merits of this feature. Keep in mind that we want features that will be useful to the majority of the strong lensing community.
Enhancement suggestions are tracked as GitHub issues.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
- Provide a step-by-step description of the suggested enhancement in as many details as possible.
- Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why. At this point you can also tell which alternatives do not work for you.
- You may want to include screenshots which help you demonstrate the steps or point out the part which the suggestion is related to.
- Explain why this enhancement would be useful to most COOLEST users. You may also want to point out the other projects that solved it better and which could serve as inspiration.
We also encourage anyone to help improving the documentation, would it be in the code, on the GitHub repository or on the ReadTheDoc website. Please do not hesitate to propose improvements, example notebooks or even add some yourself via pull requests, as described in the previous sections.
This guide is based on the contributing-gen. Make your own!