Contribute

Contributions are much welcome for the documentation and for defects. Defects means here both behavior not conforming the specification and missing but desirable features. The following two sections describes the process that I use for code development and documentation writing.

1. Contribution for the Python Package
2. Contribution for the Documentation

Contribution for the Python Package

The code and development happens in this GitHub repository.

For contributions, use the following guidelines:

1. Fork the project on GitHub, clone the fork to your Operating System and open the repository as folder/workspace in your favorite IDE. I use VSCode + Python extension.

2. Any change applied to the source code should be tested against the multiple tests included within the repository.

3. Once satisfied, push your changes as a new branch to your fork and create a Pull Request to the original repository.

4. A Pull Request triggers the Continuous Integration tests on the main GitHub repository and only after passing these tests a PR can be merged into main by the maintainer.

python -m pip install "topojson[dev] @ git+https://github.com/mattijn/topojson.git"

conda create -n topo_dev
conda activate topo_dev
conda install flit codecov pytest flake8
conda install numpy shapely geojson pyshp fiona geopandas altair ipywidgets
python -m pip install simplification

Contribution for the Documentation

The documentation page is build upon Github Pages. To build the documentation page locally, make sure you have installed:

1. Ruby
   • On MacOS this can be done using brew install ruby.
   • On Windows you should follow instructions on https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/.
2. Dependencies GitHub Pages
   • Enter the docs directory from this repository on cmd and run bundle install to install all required (sub)dependencies that are mentioned in the Gemfile.

Afterwards and consequently run the following command from within the docs folder:

bundle exec jekyll serve --baseurl ''

Note: On Windows, a Windows Defender Firewall dialog can popup. Click allow access to give permission.

The server address is shown in cmd. Any changes you make in the Markdown documentation is directly reflected on this website.

The API reference documentation is created using pydocmd. The created markdown is subsequently changed to align with the style of this page.

All of this happens from the Jupyter Notebook available in the generate folder. PydocMd should be installed (using version 2.X) and available from cmd to run all cells in the notebook successfully.