Contributing
============

We work hard to provide a high-quality and useful SDK, and we greatly value
feedback and contributions from our community. Whether it's a new feature,
correction, or additional documentation, we welcome your pull requests. Please
submit any `issues <https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues>`__
or `pull requests <https://github.com/boto/botocore/pulls>`__ through GitHub.

This document contains guidelines for contributing code and filing issues.

Contributing Code
-----------------

The list below are guidelines to use when submitting pull requests.
These are the same set of guidelines that the core contributors use
when submitting changes, and we ask the same of all community
contributions as well:

* The SDK is released under the
  `Apache license <http://aws.amazon.com/apache2.0/>`__.
  Any code you submit will be released under that license.
* We maintain a high percentage of code coverage in our unit tests.  As
  a general rule of thumb, code changes should not lower the overall
  code coverage percentage for the project.  To help with this,
  we use `coveralls <https://coveralls.io/r/boto/botocore>`__, which will
  comment on changes in code coverage for every pull request.
  In practice, this means that every bug fix and feature addition should
  include unit tests.
* If you identify an issue with the JSON service descriptions,
  such as ``botocore/data/aws/s3/2006-03-01/service-2.json``, please submit an
  `issue <https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues>`__ so we can get it
  fixed upstream.
* Changes to paginators, waiters, and endpoints are also generated upstream based on our internal knowledge of the AWS services.
  These include any of the  following files in ``botocore/data/``:

  * ``_endpoints.json``
  * ``*.paginators-1.json``
  * ``*.waiters-2.json``

  If you identify an issue with these files, such as a missing paginator or waiter, please submit an
  `issue <https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues>`__ so we can get it fixed upstream.
* We do accept, and encourage, changes to the ``botocore/data/_retry.json`` file.
* Code should follow the guidelines listed in the Codestyle section below.
* Code must work on all versions of Python supported by Botocore.
* Botocore is cross platform and code must work on at least linux, Windows,
  and Mac OS X.
* If you would like to implement support for a significant feature that is not
  yet available in botocore, please talk to us beforehand to avoid any duplication
  of effort.  You can file an
  `issue <https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues>`__
  to discuss the feature request further.

Reporting An Issue/Feature
--------------------------

*  Check to see if there's an existing issue/pull request for the
   bug/feature. All issues are at
   https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues and pull reqs are at
   https://github.com/boto/botocore/pulls.
*  If there isn't an existing issue there, please file an issue. The
   ideal report includes:

   * A description of the problem/suggestion.
   * A code sample that demonstrates the issue.
   * Including the versions of your:

     * python interpreter
     * OS
     * botocore (accessible via ``botocore.__version__``)
     * optionally any other python dependencies involved

Codestyle
---------
This project uses `ruff <https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff>`__ to enforce
codestyle requirements. We've codified this process using a tool called
`pre-commit <https://pre-commit.com/>`__. pre-commit allows us to specify a
config file with all tools required for code linting, and surfaces either a
git commit hook, or single command, for enforcing these.

To validate your PR prior to publishing, you can use the following
`installation guide <https://pre-commit.com/#install>`__ to setup pre-commit.

If you don't want to use the git commit hook, you can run the below command
to automatically perform the codestyle validation:

.. code-block:: bash

    $ pre-commit run

This will automatically perform simple updates (such as white space clean up)
and provide a list of any failing checks. After these are addressed,
you can commit the changes prior to publishing the PR.
These checks are also included in our CI setup under the "Lint" workflow which
will provide output on Github for anything missed locally.

Automated Tools
---------------
The use of AI tooling for assisted development work is accepted and encouraged
in this repository, but due to the volume of submissions we ask that you observe
the following rules:

- All issue and pull request submissions to this repository that are sourced by
  AI must first be reviewed by a human before submitting to the repository.
  Items reviewed in this way must include a statement like "generated by AI
  tools, and reviewed by <person>"
- Please ensure that your submissions are actually improvements. While we are
  grateful for any proposed fixes, even if they are very small, behavior that
  looks like creating nuisance PRs or artificially inflating submission counts
  is not acceptable.
- We may close issues or pull requests, or limit your ability to interact with
  this repository, for behavior that in our estimation violates these rules or
  any of the other rules in this repository's
  `Code of Conduct <CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>`.
