Pull request guidelines#

Pull requests (PRs) are the mechanism for contributing to FastF1s code and documentation.

Summary for PR authors#

Note

We value contributions from people with all levels of experience. In particular if this is your first PR not everything has to be perfect. We’ll guide you through the PR process.
Nevertheless, try to follow the guidelines below as well as you can to help make the PR process quick and smooth.
Be patient with reviewers. We try our best to respond quickly, but we have limited bandwidth. If there is no feedback within a couple of days, please ping us by posting a comment to your PR.

When making a PR, pay attention to:

Adhere to the Coding guidelines.
Update the documentation if necessary.
Aim at making the PR as “ready-to-go” as you can. This helps to speed up the review process.
It is ok to open incomplete or work-in-progress PRs if you need help or feedback from the developers. You may mark these as draft pull requests on GitHub.
When updating your PR, instead of adding new commits to fix something, please consider amending your initial commit(s) to keep the history clean. You can achieve this using
```
git commit --amend --no-edit
git push [your-remote-repo] [your-branch] --force-with-lease
```

See also Contributing for how to make a PR.

Every new feature should be documented. If it’s a new module, don’t forget to add a new rst file to the API docs.
Each high-level function should have a small example in the Examples section of the docstring. This should be as simple as possible to demonstrate the method. More complex examples should go into a dedicated example file in the examples directory, which will be rendered to the examples gallery in the documentation.
Build the docs and make sure all formatting warnings are addressed.
See Writing documentation for our documentation style guide.
If your change is a major new feature, update docs/changelog.rst.

Whenever a pull request is created or updated, various automated test tools will run on all supported versions of Python.

Make sure that all test are passing. (All checks are listed at the bottom of the GitHub page of your pull request)