Expand the "Maintaining an MDAKit" documentation #223
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Could you substitute - with _ here please? For a variety of reasons that'll make things easier to deal with.
| - **More tests**: can you get to 100% coverage?! | ||
| - **More documentation**: Explain each part of your code. Add examples. Make | ||
| your documentation visually appealing and easy to navigate! | ||
| - :ref:`Add a logo <logo>`: Spice up your MDAKit with your very own logo! |
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This seems like a much lower importance thing than the rest, I don't mind it being here, but just pointing out that it's a bit "jarring" in the sense that you have lots of high importance thing and then "logo".
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fair; I wanted a way to bring it to people's attention that they could have a logo, since it's not mentioned anywhere else (and rule of threes to make this not sound awkward). Perhaps if I added 'you could even...' to make it clearer it comes after the two former things?
| - **More documentation**: Explain each part of your code. Add examples. Make | ||
| your documentation visually appealing and easy to navigate! | ||
| - :ref:`Add a logo <logo>`: Spice up your MDAKit with your very own logo! | ||
| - **Use tooling and workflows**: don't rely solely on the MDAKit Registry's CI |
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Maybe here worth mentioning tools for formatting, etc.. (i.e. your explanation focuses a lot on workflows but not so much on tooling).
| - **Release on PyPi/conda-forge**: make it easier for users to install your kit! | ||
| - :ref:`Make a journal publication <publishing>`: get recognition for your code! | ||
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| If applicable, remember to :ref:`update your kit's metadata <update-metadata>` |
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It would be good to highlight this more to the reader. Would it be worth putting this in a note box?
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The fact that we have separate sections for some but not all of the above is a bit "odd" - in the sense that the information flow goes "here's an overview" to "here are some more details on the above". Is there a better way to order this? Separate pages?
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I don't like splitting things up too much when the sections are this short (makes for a lot of back-and-forth mavigation), but that being said I am planning to add more documentation later that includes details on some of the other above things, and at that stage likely would better to go separate pages.
I'd keep this updating section here since it's generally relevant, but might move the publishing/logo sections
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| Usually, a package will warn users of any upcoming changes that may affect | ||
| downstream usage (e.g. changing how a function is to be used), by raising | ||
| a warning indicating the upcoming change when the function is used. |
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DeprecationWarning (link to Python docs for the warning type)
| a warning indicating the upcoming change when the function is used. | ||
| If your kit relies on any such to-be-changed features, then (assuming the | ||
| relevant code is covered by your kit's tests) these warnings will be triggered | ||
| when running the tests and will appear in the logs of the automated CI runs - |
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... when accessing the deprecated feature. Assuming your unit tests cover this part of your code, such DeprecationWarnings will appear in the output logs..
I would avoid mentioning automated CI probably, i.e. you can see this if you run tests locally or via gh actions.
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| Successfully registering an MDAKit is not the end of the journey! Like a pet, a | |||
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I see where you're going here - my 2 cents is that the "like a pet" is maybe a bit too much, but I leave it to you
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that's fair - I wasn't actually super happy with this either 😅 but also didn't like how it read jumping straight in - let me think on it again
Co-authored-by: Irfan Alibay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Irfan Alibay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Irfan Alibay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Irfan Alibay <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Irfan Alibay <[email protected]>
I've added assorted information related to maintaining a kit. This is non-exhaustive so I've kept the "this is under construction" message.
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