We work hard to provide a high-quality and useful SDK, and we greatly value feedback and contributions from our community. Whether it's a new feature, correction, or additional documentation, we welcome your pull requests. Please submit any issues or pull requests through GitHub.
This document contains guidelines for contributing code and filing issues.
The list below are guidelines to use when submitting pull requests. These are the same set of guidelines that the core contributors use when submitting changes, and we ask the same of all community contributions as well:
The SDK is released under the Apache license. Any code you submit will be released under that license.
We maintain a high percentage of code coverage in our unit tests. As a general rule of thumb, code changes should not lower the overall code coverage percentage for the project. To help with this, we use coveralls, which will comment on changes in code coverage for every pull request. In practice, this means that every bug fix and feature addition should include unit tests.
If you identify an issue with the JSON service descriptions, such as
botocore/data/aws/s3/2006-03-01/service-2.json
, please submit an issue so we can get it fixed upstream.Changes to paginators, waiters, and endpoints are also generated upstream based on our internal knowledge of the AWS services. These include any of the following files in
botocore/data/
:_endpoints.json
*.paginators-1.json
*.waiters-2.json
If you identify an issue with these files, such as a missing paginator or waiter, please submit an issue so we can get it fixed upstream.
We do accept, and encourage, changes to the
botocore/data/_retry.json
file.Code should follow the guidelines listed in the Codestyle section below.
Code must work on all versions of Python supported by Botocore.
Botocore is cross platform and code must work on at least linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
If you would like to implement support for a significant feature that is not yet available in botocore, please talk to us beforehand to avoid any duplication of effort. You can file an issue to discuss the feature request further.
- Check to see if there's an existing issue/pull request for the bug/feature. All issues are at https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues and pull reqs are at https://github.com/boto/botocore/pulls.
- If there isn't an existing issue there, please file an issue. The
ideal report includes:
- A description of the problem/suggestion.
- A code sample that demonstrates the issue.
- Including the versions of your:
- python interpreter
- OS
- botocore (accessible via
botocore.__version__
) - optionally any other python dependencies involved
This project uses flake8 to enforce codstyle requirements. We've codified this process using a tool called pre-commit. pre-commit allows us to specify a config file with all tools required for code linting, and surfaces either a git commit hook, or single command, for enforcing these.
To validate your PR prior to publishing, you can use the following installation guide to setup pre-commit.
If you don't want to use the git commit hook, you can run the below command to automatically perform the codestyle validation:
$ pre-commit run
This will automatically perform simple updates (such as white space clean up) and provide a list of any failing flake8 checks. After these are addressed, you can commit the changes prior to publishing the PR. These checks are also included in our CI setup under the "Lint" workflow which will provide output on Github for anything missed locally.
See the flake8 section of the setup.cfg for the currently enforced rules.