Contributing

Pull requests for bugs are always welcome! New functionality should generally be preceded by a discussion, though if you’ve written something that you needed and want to contribute back, a pull request is a fine way to start that discussion :)

All of the code in pontoon is PEP-8 audited (using pytest-pep8), and there’s a full suite of tests written for py.test (library code) and Bats (interface). Contributions should, therefore, include tests and pass a PEP-8 audit.

Running the tests

Running the tests locally requires the contents of requirements.txt as well as bats.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

On OSX, bats can be installed with homebrew:

$ brew install bats

On Debian/Ubuntu, I’ve set up a PPA for easy installation of bats:

$ add-apt-repository ppa:duggan/bats
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install bats

Tests can then be run from the root directory:

$ py.test --pep8 --cov pontoon
$ bats test/bats

Debugging

Set the DEBUG environment variable (to anything) to enable debug output for pontoon.

This will give a step through of most methods being executed during a command, like so:

$ DEBUG=1 pontoon droplet destroy foobar
2013-11-09 18:37:06,187 [pontoon.configure:DEBUG] combined: (){}
2013-11-09 18:37:06,187 [pontoon.configure:DEBUG] read_config: (){}
Destroying foobar and scrubbing data...
2013-11-09 18:37:06,204 [pontoon.droplet:DEBUG] destroy: (<pontoon.droplet.Droplet instance at 0x10ce1fd40>, 'foobar', False){}
2013-11-09 18:37:06,204 [pontoon.droplet:DEBUG] id_from_name: (<pontoon.droplet.Droplet instance at 0x10ce1fd40>, 'foobar'){}
2013-11-09 18:37:06,204 [pontoon.droplet:DEBUG] list: (<pontoon.droplet.Droplet instance at 0x10ce1fd40>,){}
2013-11-09 18:37:06,205 [pontoon.pontoon:DEBUG] render: (<pontoon.pontoon.Pontoon instance at 0x10ce1fcf8>, 'droplets', '/droplets'){}
2013-11-09 18:37:06,205 [pontoon.pontoon:DEBUG] request: (<pontoon.pontoon.Pontoon instance at 0x10ce1fcf8>, '/droplets'){'params': {}, 'method': 'GET'}
2013-11-09 18:37:07,498 [pontoon.pontoon:DEBUG] render: (<pontoon.pontoon.Pontoon instance at 0x10ce1fcf8>, 'event_id', '/droplets/998/destroy'){'params': {'scrub_data': 1}}
2013-11-09 18:37:07,498 [pontoon.pontoon:DEBUG] request: (<pontoon.pontoon.Pontoon instance at 0x10ce1fcf8>, '/droplets/998/destroy'){'params': {'scrub_data': 1}, 'method': 'GET'}

A timestamp, followed by the module, debug level, the method called and the arguments to that method (positional as brackets, keywords as curlies).

This functionality is implemented by the @debug decorator, the code for which can be seen at pontoon/log.py.

Mocking

Set the MOCK environment variable (to anything) to return mock request data instead of querying Digital Ocean.

This is implemented solely for end-to-end testing of the CLI, but you may find it useful in some other scenarios.

Addendum

Windows support

Pontoon’s lack of Windows support is a bug, not a feature. If you need pontoon on Windows, the best way to help get it there is with a pull request.