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Maintainers Guide

This document describes tools, tasks and workflow that one needs to be familiar with in order to effectively maintain this project. If you use this package within your own software as is but don't plan on modifying it, this guide is not for you.

Tools

Python (and friends)

We recommend using pyenv for Python runtime management. If you use macOS, follow the following steps:

$ brew update
$ brew install pyenv

You can hook pyenv into your shell automatically by running pyenv init and following the instructions.

Install necessary Python runtimes for development/testing. It is not necessary to install all the various Python versions we test in continuous integration on GitHub Actions, but make sure you are running at least one version that we execute our tests in locally so that you can run the tests yourself.

$ pyenv install -l | grep -v "-e[conda|stackless|pypy]"

$ pyenv install 3.9.6 # select the latest patch version
$ pyenv local 3.9.6

$ pyenv versions
  system
  3.6.10
  3.7.7
* 3.9.6 (set by /path-to-python-slack-sdk/.python-version)

$ pyenv rehash

Then, you can create a new Virtual Environment specific to the Python version you just installed by running:

$ python -m venv env_3.9.6
$ source env_3.9.6/bin/activate

At this point you have a clean, Python-version-specific environment "activated" for use just for this project. All python and pip commands run in your shell from this point on run in the context of this virtual environment. You can deactivate the virtual environment by running deactivate; it is recommended to do so after you are done working in this project. To come back to development work for this project again in the future, cd into this project directory and run source env_3.9.6/bin/activate again.

The last step is to install this project's dependencies; to do so, check out how we configure GitHub Actions to install dependencies for this project for use in our continuous integration. You can also run ./scripts/run_validation.sh to install the dependencies and run the unit tests in one command!

Tasks

Testing (Unit Tests)

When you make changes to this SDK, please write unit tests verifying if the changes work as you expected. You can easily run all the tests by running the command. The validate command runs Flake8 (static code analyzer), Black (code formatter), and unit tests in the tests directory for you.

python setup.py validate # run all

# run a single test
python setup.py validate \
  --test-target tests/web/test_web_client.py

You can rely on GitHub Actions builds for running the tests on a variety of Python runtimes.

Testing (Integration Tests with Real Slack APIs)

This project also has integration tests that verify the SDK works with the Slack API platform. As a preparation, you need to set the required env variables properly. You don't need to setup all of them if you just want to run some of the tests. Commonly, SLACK_SDK_TEST_BOT_TOKEN and SLACK_SDK_TEST_USER_TOKEN are used for running WebClient tests.

python setup.py integration_tests # run all

# run a single test
python setup.py integration_tests \
  --test-target integration_tests/web/test_web_client.py

Generating Documentation

The documentation is generated from the source and templates in the docs-src directory. The generated documentation gets committed to the repo in docs and also published to a GitHub Pages website.

You can generate the documentation by running ./scripts/docs.sh.

Releasing

  1. Create the commit for the release:
  • Bump the version number in adherence to Semantic Versioning in slack_sdk/version.py.
  • Build the docs with ./scripts/docs.sh.
  • Create a branch for the release with git checkout -b v2.5.0
  • Make a commit that includes the new version number: git commit -m 'version 2.5.0'.
  • Open a PR and merge after receiving at least one approval from other maintainers.
  • Create a git tag for the release. For example git tag v2.5.0.
  • Push the tag up to github with git push origin --tags
  1. Distribute the release
  • Use the latest stable Python runtime
    • python -m venv env
    • python setup.py upload
  • Create a GitHub Release. You will select the commit with updated version number (e.g. version 2.5.0) to associate with the tag, and name the tag after this version (e.g. v2.5.0). This will also serve as a Changelog for the project. Add a description of changes to the Release. Mention Issue and PR #'s and @-mention contributors.
Refer to [v{version} milestone](https://github.com/slackapi/python-slack-sdk/milestone/{TODO}?closed=1) to know the complete list of the issues resolved by this release.

**Updates**

1. [WebClient] #111 Make an awesome change - Thanks @SlackHQ
1. [RTMClient] #222 Make an awesome change - Thanks @SlackAPI

**All Changes**

https://github.com/slackapi/python-slack-sdk/compare/{the previous release version tag}...{the release version tag}
  1. (Slack Internal) Communicate the release internally
  • Include a link to the GitHub release
  1. Make announcements
  • #slack-api in dev4slack.slack.com
  • #lang-python in community.slack.com
  1. (Slack Internal) Tweet by @SlackAPI
  • Not necessary for patch updates, might be needed for minor updates, definitely needed for major updates. Include a link to the GitHub release

Workflow

Versioning and Tags

This project uses semantic versioning, expressed through the numbering scheme of PEP-0440.

Branches

The main branch is where active development occurs. Long running named feature branches are occasionally created for collaboration on a feature that has a large scope (because everyone cannot push commits to another person's open Pull Request). At some point in the future after a major version increment, there may be maintenance branches for older major versions.

Issue Management

Labels are used to run issues through an organized workflow. Here are the basic definitions:

  • bug: A confirmed bug report. A bug is considered confirmed when reproduction steps have been documented and the issue has been reproduced.
  • enhancement: A feature request for something this package might not already do.
  • docs: An issue that is purely about documentation work.
  • tests: An issue that is purely about testing work.
  • question: An issue that is like a support request because the user's usage was not correct.

Triage is the process of taking new issues that aren't yet "seen" and marking them with a basic level of information with labels. An issue should have one of the following labels applied: bug, enhancement, question, docs, tests, or discussion.

Issues are closed when a resolution has been reached. If for any reason a closed issue seems relevant once again, reopening is great and better than creating a duplicate issue.

Everything else

When in doubt, find the other maintainers and ask.