First off, thank you for considering contributing to redis-py. We value community contributions!
You may already know what you want to contribute -- a fix for a bug you encountered, or a new feature your team wants to use.
If you don't know what to contribute, keep an open mind! Improving documentation, bug triaging, and writing tutorials are all examples of helpful contributions that mean less work for you.
Unsure where to begin contributing? You can start by looking through help-wanted issues.
Never contributed to open source before? Here are a couple of friendly tutorials:
Here's how to get started with your code contribution:
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Create your own fork of redis-py
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Do the changes in your fork
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Create a virtualenv and install the development dependencies from the dev_requirements.txt file:
a. python -m venv .venv b. source .venv/bin/activate c. pip install -r dev_requirements.txt
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If you need a development environment, run
invoke devenv
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While developing, make sure the tests pass by running
invoke tests
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If you like the change and think the project could use it, send a pull request
To see what else is part of the automation, run invoke -l
Running invoke devenv
installs the development dependencies specified
in the dev_requirements.txt. It starts all of the dockers used by this
project, and leaves them running. These can be easily cleaned up with
invoke clean
. NOTE: it is assumed that the user running these tests,
can execute docker and its various commands.
- A master Redis node
- A Redis replica node
- Three sentinel Redis nodes
- A multi-python docker, with your source code mounted in /data
The replica node, is a replica of the master node, using the leader-follower replication feature.
The sentinels monitor the master node in a sentinel high-availability configuration.
Each run of tox starts and stops the various dockers required. Sometimes
things get stuck, an invoke clean
can help.
Continuous Integration uses these same wrappers to run all of these tests against multiple versions of python. Feel free to test your changes against all the python versions supported, as declared by the tox.ini file (eg: tox -e py39). If you have the various python versions on your desktop, you can run tox by itself, to test all supported versions. Alternatively, as your source code is mounted in the lots-of-pythons docker, you can start exploring from there, with all supported python versions!
Following are a few tips that can help you work with the Docker-based development environment.
To get a bash shell inside of a container:
$ docker run -it <service> /bin/bash
Note: The term "service" refers to the "services" defined in the
tox.ini
file at the top of the repo: "master", "replicaof",
"sentinel_1", "sentinel_2", "sentinel_3".
Containers run a minimal Debian image that probably lacks tools you want to use. To install packages, first get a bash session (see previous tip) and then run:
$ apt update && apt install <package>
You can see the logging output of a containers like this:
$ docker logs -f <service>
The command make test runs all tests in all tested Python environments. To run the tests in a single environment, like Python 3.6, use a command like this:
$ docker-compose run test tox -e py36 -- --redis-url=redis://master:6379/9
Here, the flag -e py36
runs tests against the Python 3.6 tox
environment. And note from the example that whenever you run tests like
this, instead of using make test, you need to pass
-- --redis-url=redis://master:6379/9
. This points the tests at the
"master" container.
Our test suite uses pytest
. You can run a specific test suite against
a specific Python version like this:
$ docker-compose run test tox -e py36 -- --redis-url=redis://master:6379/9 tests/test_commands.py
If you get any errors when running make dev
or make test
, make sure
that you are using supported versions of Docker.
Please try at least versions of Docker.
- Docker 19.03.12
NOTE: If you find a security vulnerability, do NOT open an issue. Email Redis Open Source ([email protected]) instead.
In order to determine whether you are dealing with a security issue, ask yourself these two questions:
- Can I access something that's not mine, or something I shouldn't have access to?
- Can I disable something for other people?
If the answer to either of those two questions are yes, then you're probably dealing with a security issue. Note that even if you answer no to both questions, you may still be dealing with a security issue, so if you're unsure, just email us.
When filing an issue, make sure to answer these five questions:
- What version of redis-py are you using?
- What version of redis are you using?
- What did you do?
- What did you expect to see?
- What did you see instead?
If you'd like to contribute a new feature, make sure you check our issue list to see if someone has already proposed it. Work may already be under way on the feature you want -- or we may have rejected a feature like it already.
If you don't see anything, open a new issue that describes the feature you would like and how it should work.
The core team looks at Pull Requests on a regular basis. We will give feedback as as soon as possible. After feedback, we expect a response within two weeks. After that time, we may close your PR if it isn't showing any activity.