Hacking Guake

Contributing

First, be sure to use a verion of Python 3 where GTK and GObjects works in your system. For instance, under Ubuntu 17.04, PyGtk and python3-gi does not work well if the default python 3 interpreter is forced to Python 3.6.

Operating System

Recommended Python version

Notes

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Python 3.4 (UNTESTED)

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Python 3.5 (TESTED)

Ubuntu 17.04

Python 3.5 (TESTED)

Ubuntu 17.10

Python 3.6 (TESTED)

Quick Open disabled (#1230)

Validate your code

We are strict on code styling, with pep8 and pylint running automatically in GitHub Actions in order to reject badly shaped patches. Please use the following command to validate all python files:

$ make style  # fix the style of python files
$ make check  # static code analysis
$ make test   # unit test campaign
$ make dists  # make distribution packages

Update translation

Update all translation files:

$ make update-po

Install the translations files:

$ sudo make install-locale

Then use your favorite po editor, such as poedit.

Start Guake with a different locale (locales should be installed):

$ LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF8 make run

Update NEWS

Update the NEWS file using the followng command:

make release-note-news

The ChangeLog files is not maintained but instead automatically generated by PBR when building the distribution packages.

Same goes for the ChangeLog file.

Versionning

Versioning is automatically done using git tags. When a semver tag is pushed, a new version is automatically created by PBR.

PBR also has some magic to generate the version automatically from sem-ver tag found in the commit message. See the Makefile’s tag-pbr target.

GitHub Actions build

GitHub Actions automatically check pull requests are compiling and check for code style.

Status of the latest build: https://github.com/Guake/guake/actions