Contribute

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This section is for those who want to contribute to the Story Navigator add-on by building from source, extending, customizing, or fixing bugs in it.

Contributing guidelines

Welcome! Story Navigator is an open-source project that helps analyzing textual stories using the lenses of narrative psychology, narrative analysis, and narrative theory. We aim to work with a a wide range of textual data. If you’re trying Story Navigator with your data, your experience, questions, bugs you encountered, and suggestions for improvement are important to the success of the project.

We have a Code of Conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

Questions, feedback, bugs

Use the search function to see if someone else already ran accross the same issue. Feel free to open a new issue here to ask a question, suggest improvements/new features, or report any bugs that you ran into.

Submitting changes

Even better than a good bug report is a fix for the bug or the implementation of a new feature. We welcome any contributions that help improve the code.

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via an issue with the owners of this repository before making a change. You can also contact the developers at developers@storynavigator.com before submitting PRs.

Contributions can come in the form of:

  • Bug fixes

  • New features

  • Improvement of existing code

  • Updates to the documentation

  • Etc

We use the usual GitHub pull-request flow. For more info see GitHub’s own documentation.

Typically this means:

  1. Forking the repository and/or make a new branch

  2. Making your changes

  3. Make sure that the tests pass and add your own

  4. Make sure the documentation is updated for new features

  5. Pushing the code back to Github

  6. Create a new Pull Request

One of the code owners will review your code and request changes if needed. Once your changes have been approved, your contributions will become part of Story Navigator.

Getting started with development

Setup

Story Navigator targets Python 3.9.12 or newer.

Clone the repository into the storynavigator directory:

git clone https://github.com/navigating-stories/orange-story-navigator

Install using virtualenv:

cd storynavigator
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -e .[develop]

Alternatively, install using Conda:

cd storynavigator
conda create -n storynavigator python=3.10
conda activate storynavigator
pip install -e .[develop]

Running tests

Story Navigator uses pytest to run the tests. You can run the tests for yourself using:

pytest

To check coverage:

coverage run -m pytest
coverage report  # to output to terminal
coverage html    # to generate html report

Building the documentation

The documentation is written in markdown, and uses mkdocs to generate the pages.

To build the documentation for yourself:

pip install -e .[docs]
mkdocs serve

You can find the documentation source in the docs directory.

Making a release

  1. Make a new release.

  2. Under ‘Choose a tag’, set the tag to the new version. The versioning scheme we use is SemVer, so bump the version (major/minor/patch) as needed.

  3. The upload to pypi is triggered when a release is published and handled by this workflow.

  4. The upload to zenodo is triggered when a release is published.