Contribute

How to Help

Thank you for your interest in improving Pyspread. Pyspread is non-commercial. It lives from your contributions. Do not hesitate to help with small things, e.g. stating a feature wish in the issue tracker.

For some concrete things that may help see below.

Bug Reports

If you find any issues with pyspread, please file an issue in the issue tracker. Suggestions are also welcome.

Test ahead

Test pyspread with pre-releases of dependencies such as Python, PyQt or numpy. Use the development branch for testing.

Gitter board

Read the gitter board and answer questions.

Support different platforms

• Help users with issues on different platform that you are experienced with. We are especially looking for contributors who use pyspread with MacOS and Windows.

• Set up and maintain deployment toolchains for MacOS and Windows that go beyond pip.

Patches

For patches / code contributions,

• fork the development branch and
• create a merge request that
• you refer to in an issue.

Please try solving only one issue or realize one feature per branch.

High priority roadmap items

• Improve UI components such as the selection mode.

• Improve the 3rd party dependency pycel package so that Excel support can improve.

• Improve the CI toolchain, especially for creating the APIDOCS.

• Improve SVG icon rendering resolution for HiDPI settings.