Contributing to Documentation

If you’re looking to help document Policy Sentry, your first step is to get set up with Sphinx, our documentation tool. First you will want to make sure you have a few things on your local system:

  • python-dev (if you’re on OS X, you already have this)
  • pip
  • pipenv

Once you’ve got all that, the rest is simple:

# If you have a fork, you'll want to clone it instead
git clone git@github.com:salesforce/policy_sentry.git

# Set up the Pipenv
pipenv install --skip-lock
pipenv shell

# Enter the docs directory and compile
cd docs/
make html

# View the file titled docs/_build/html/index.html in your browser

Building Documentation

Inside the docs directory, you can run make to build the documentation. See make help for available options and the Sphinx Documentation for more information.

Docstrings

The comments under each Python Module are Docstrings. We use those to generate our documentation. See more information here: https://sphinx-rtd-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build-the-docs.html#generating-documentation-from-docstrings.

Use the Google style for Docstrings, as shown here: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/napoleon.html#google-vs-numpy

::
def func(arg1, arg2):

“”“Summary line.

Extended description of function.

Args:
arg1 (int): Description of arg1 arg2 (str): Description of arg2
Returns:
bool: Description of return value

“”” return True