Introduction to contributing

Encouraging more people to help develop pvlib-python is essential to our success. Therefore, we want to make it easy and rewarding for you to contribute.

There is a lot of material in this section, aimed at a variety of contributors from novice to expert. Don’t worry if you don’t (yet) understand parts of it.

Easy ways to contribute

Here are a few ideas for how you can contribute, even if you are new to pvlib-python, git, or Python:

• Ask and answer pvlib questions on StackOverflow and participate in discussions in the pvlib-python google group.

• Make GitHub issues and contribute to the conversations about how to resolve them.

• Read issues and pull requests that other people created and contribute to the conversation about how to resolve them. Look for issues tagged with good first issue, easy, or help wanted.

• Improve the documentation and the unit tests.

• Improve the Example Gallery or add new examples that demonstrate how to use pvlib-python in your area of expertise.

• Tell your friends and colleagues about pvlib-python.

• Add your project to our Projects and publications that use pvlib-python wiki.

This documentation

If this documentation is unclear, help us improve it! Consider looking at the pandas documentation for inspiration.

Code of Conduct

All contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Code of Conduct.