Contributing

Contributing to p4net

Thanks for your interest in contributing.

Discussion first

For non-trivial changes, please open an issue to discuss the design before sending a large pull request. Small fixes and clearly-scoped improvements can go straight to a PR.

Development setup

After cloning the repository:

pip install -e '.[dev]' && pre-commit install

Before submitting

Run the full local check suite and make sure it is clean:

ruff check . && ruff format --check . && mypy src/p4net && pytest

Commit messages

Conventional-commit style subjects are preferred:

type: subject

Allowed types: feat, fix, chore, docs, test, refactor, ci, build.