Your first contribution

To contribute new functionality to OpenProblems, please follow the steps below:

  1. Search through the GitHub Issues tracker of the task to ensure that no one else is already working on the feature you would like to add.
  • If someone is already working on it, post in that issue to express your interest or reach out to the contributors working on the issue directly.
  • If there is no existing issue tracking the feature, create a new one.
  1. Review the key concepts of OpenProblems to get a good grasp of the framework as a whole.

  2. Install the necessary requirements to work with OpenProblems.

  3. Follow the getting started guide to fork and clone the repository and download the necessary test resources.

  4. Add a method, metric, or control method to the framework.

  5. Run the provided unit tests to ensure that the new functionality passes.

  6. Create a pull request from your branch to the OpenProblems main branch. Don't forget to add an entry to the CHANGELOG.md file describing the proposed changes.