Developer Guide

Contribute

This section outlines how to contribute effectively to the simtools project.

• Getting Started as Developer: Set up your development environment.

• First Steps: How to begin contributing.

• Coding Guidelines: Code style and best practices.

• Pull Requests: How to open a PR via GitHub.

• Documentation: Contributing to user and developer documentation.

• Testing: Writing unit and integration tests.

Automatic Processes

• Continuous Integration: Automated testing and checks.

• Deployment: Automated deployment of releases.

Containers

All software components of simtools are available as OCI-compatible container images.

• Running simtools containers

• Building simtools images:

Preparing simtools Releases

• Prepare and Deploy: How to prepare and deploy a new release of simtools.