Welcome to the testcontainers-python community! This should give you an idea about how we build, test and release testcontainers-python!

Highly recommended to read this document thoroughly to understand what we're working on right now and what our priorities are before you are trying to contribute something.

This will greatly increase your chances of getting prompt replies as the maintainers are volunteers themselves.

We recommend following these steps:

1. Finish reading this document.
2. Read the recently updated issues
3. Look for existing issues on the subject you are interested in - we do our best to label everything correctly

You need to have the following tools available to you:

• make - You'll need a GNU Make for common developer activities
• uv - This is the primary package manager for the project

• Run make install to get uv to install all dependencies and set up pre-commit
  • Recommended: Run make or make help to see other commands available to you.
• After this, you should have a working virtual environment and proceed with writing code with your favourite IDE
• TIP: You can run make core/tests or make community/<my-module>/tests to run the tests specifically for that to speed up feedback cycles
• You can also run make lint to run the pre-commit for the entire codebase.

We have an issue template for adding new containers, please refer to that for more information. Once you've talked to the maintainers (we do our best to reply!) then you can proceed with contributing the new container.

We have Issue Templates to cover most cases, please try to adhere to them, they will guide you through the process. Try to look through the existing issues before you raise a new one.

We have automated Semantic Versioning and release via release-please. This takes care of:

• Detecting the next version, based on the commits that landed on main
• When a Release PR has been merged
  • Create a GitHub Release with the CHANGELOG included
  • Update the CHANGELOG, similar to the GitHub Release
  • Release to PyPI via a trusted publisher
  • Automatically script updates in files where it's needed instead of hand-crafting it (i.e. in pyproject.toml)

[!CRITICAL] Community modules are supported on a best-effort basis and for maintenance reasons, any change to them is only covered under minor and patch changes.

Community modules changes DO NOT contribute to major version changes!

If your community module container was broken by a minor or patch version change, check out the change logs!

Thanks for reading, feedback on documentation is always welcome!