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Contribute to the code

In this chapter we speak about how you can actively give back to Lino by pushing your source code modifications back to its code repository.

Sharing code with others

• Legal considerations for contributors
  • Contributor License Agreement
  • Coding standards
  • Standard files
• How to submit a pull request
  • Send a patch
  • Use a fork
  • How to pull changes from upstream to your fork
  • Submit a pull request
  • Using git request-pull
  • Pushing directly to master branch?
• Working with others
  • Contributing code
  • Send a patch
  • Submit a pull request
  • Continuous integration
  • About demo projects
  • What means inv ?

QA and deployment

• Testing Lino applications
  • Choosing the pytest runner
  • Django tests in demo projects
  • Doctests in Lino
  • Migration tests
  • Cypress
  • Manual testing suite
  • Travis CI
• The deployment process
  • Date-based versioning
  • Release Lino to PyPI
  • Migrate from setup.py to pyproject.toml
• Moving from GitHub to GitLab
  • How to update the remote setting of your clone
  • How to move a repo from GitHub to GitLab
  • Why avoid GitHub?

Writing documentation

• Writing documentation
  • Getting started with Sphinx
  • Building the Lino docs
  • Doctests in Lino
  • Types of documentation
  • Start your own developer blog
  • Where to put your docstrings
  • Help texts
  • About developer documentation
  • Shared Sphinx resources
  • Documenting changes
  • Redirected historic URLs
  • Shared documentation pages
  • About local help pages
  • Referring to other doctrees