Thanks for your time and willingness to contribute to PCRaster! This page gives a few guidelines:
Reporting Bugs
If you have found a bug in the PCRaster software (or any other erroneous behaviour) please file a bug report. Any error messages containing the phrases: "assertion failed" or "programming error" are always related to errors in the software we should fix.
Bugs are tracked on our GitHub issue page. To allow us to reproduce the issue please provide:
- The PCRaster version and the Python version used.
- Details about the operating system used.
- The description of the problem in as much detail as possible.
- If possible, a minimal working example and zip or archive file with all data and scripts so we can reproduce the bug.
General questions
Please do not use the issue tracker for support questions. You can send your questions, ideas and discussion issues to our mailing list.
Pull requests
In case you can provide a code fix yourself please consider submitting a pull request.
For something that is bigger than a trivial fix follow these steps:
- Create an issue describing the changes you intend to make.
- Create your own fork of the PCRaster code.
- Create a branch with the corresponding issue number.
- Switch to that branch.
- Apply your modifications.
- Ensure cross-platform compatibility; for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
All contributions to this project will be released under the GPLv3 license under copyright of the PCRaster owners. By submitting a pull request:
- You are agreeing to comply with the waiver of your copyright interest.
- You state that the contribution was created in whole by you and you have the right to submit it.
Contacting us
For project related questions please contact us at info@pcraster.eu.