Contributing

Gauss is the LHCb project based on top of core simulation framework Gaussino, and other LHCb projects. Gauss contains all the LHCb-experiment-related components, whereas Gaussino contains all the core functionalities which should be independent of any experiment.

Developing Gauss

Please make sure that you followed the recipe described in and make sure that you work on your local development branch.

Changes should be introduced via merge requests targeting the master branch. If you wish to open a MR with your local branch (the name of the branch should start with your username, e.g. username-some-changes), then you can directly push the changes to the branch in the remote repository:

git add file1 file2
git commit -m "The description of your commit"
git push origin username-some-changes

In gitlab, open a MR targeting the master branch. Adding the lhcb-sim11 label will include your changes in the next nightly build of lhcb-sim11.

Documentation

  1. Add a Python Documentation label to your MR. This will activate the gitlab CI pipeline.

  2. Edit or add new markdown (.md) or reStructured Text (.rst) files in the docs/ repository and make sure they are listed in the index.rst file. You can mix both by creating a markdown file and then putting rst in the following format:

```{eval-rst}
Your reStructured Text in markdown.
```{}

  1. Your documentation should be accessible at https://lhcb-gauss.docs.cern.ch/name-of-your-branch/index.html

  2. You can test the documentation locally by running gitlab-runner exec shell build-docs. Standard make docs will not work, as we need to add python paths of other projects.