Thank you for considering contributing to rinohtype! This document contains some general information with respect to contributions. Please refer to DEVELOPING.rst for specific information on running tests etc.
Please send your contributions by creating a pull request on GitHub. You will be asked to agree to the contributor license agreement. Why, you might ask? In the past, I had plans to sell a commercial version of rinohtype. This version would basically be the same as the open source version, but with the addition of a closed-source backend for the DITA format. While I'm no longer actively pursuing these plans at this point, I would like to keep this option open. In combination with the Affero GPL, the CLA allows me to include contributions by others in this commercial version while preventing others from releasing commercial closed-source versions of rinohtype. Additionally, the CLA protects the project from legal risks. Since I'm no legal expert, I adapted the contributor license agreement from Project Harmony. You can find a quick summary and a detailed walkthrough of the license in the guide.
Please follow the coding style used in the existing codebase, which generally follows the PEP 8 style guide. Here are the most important rules the codebase conforms to:
- lines are wrapped at 80 columns
- 4 spaces indentation (no tabs)
- descriptive variable/function/class names (not shortened)
- imports are grouped into sections: standard library, external packages and rinohtype modules
- minimize use of external dependencies