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Do you like DATAMIMIC?

Would you like to help DATAMIMIC, other users, and the maintainer's team?

Or would you like to get help with DATAMIMIC?

There are very simple ways to help (several involve just one or two clicks).

And there are several ways to get help too.

Subscribe to the newsletter

You can subscribe to the (infrequent) DATAMIMIC data masters newsletter to stay updated about:

  • News about DATAMIMIC πŸš€
  • Guides πŸ“
  • Features ✨
  • Breaking changes 🚨
  • Tips and tricks βœ…

Star DATAMIMIC in GitHub

You can "star" DATAMIMIC in GitHub (clicking the star button at the top right): https://github.com/rapiddweller/datamimic. ⭐️

By adding a star, other users will be able to find it more easily and see that it has been already useful for others.

Follow DATAMIMIC on X

Follow @DATAMIMIC on X to get the latest news about DATAMIMIC. 🐦

Connect with the authors from rapiddweller

You can connect with us (rapiddweller), the authors.

You can:

Help others with questions in GitHub

You can try and help others with their questions in:

Often, you may already possess the knowledge to answer these inquiries. 😊

Should you consistently assist numerous individuals with their queries, you'll be recognized as a distinguished DATAMIMIC Expert{.internal-link target=_blank}. 🌟

It's crucial to always bear in mind: endeavor to exhibit kindness. Individuals often approach with their own set of challenges, and their manner of asking might not always be ideal. However, strive to maintain a compassionate approach. 🌼

The aspiration for the DATAMIMIC community is to foster an environment that is both kind and welcoming. Concurrently, it's vital to not tolerate any form of bullying or disrespect towards others. Promoting mutual respect and care within the community is key.

Here's how to help others with questions (in discussions or issues):

Understand the question

  • Evaluate whether you grasp the objective and the specific scenario of the individual posing the question.

  • Next, ascertain if the inquiry (which is typically in the form of a question) is explicit.

  • Often, the question revolves around a solution envisioned by the user, but a superior option might exist. By comprehending the problem and scenario more effectively, you could propose an improved alternative solution.

  • Should the question be unclear to you, don't hesitate to request additional information.

Reproduce the problem

For most of the cases and most of the questions there's something related to the person's original DATAMIMIC model.

In many cases they will only copy a small snippet of the code, but that's not enough to reproduce the problem.

  • You can ask them to provide a minimal, reproducible, example, that you can copy-paste and run on your own setup to see the same error or behavior they are seeing, or to understand their use case better.

  • Should you be inclined to go the extra mile, consider attempting to craft a sample solely from the problem's description. Remember, though, this could be time-consuming, and it might be more practical to first request a clearer explanation of the issue.

Suggest solutions

  • After being able to understand the issue or question, you can give them a possible answer.

  • Often it's better to understand their underlying problem or use case, because there might be a better way to solve it than what they are trying to do.

Ask to close

If they reply, there's a high chance you would have solved their problem, congrats, great job! 🦸

  • Now, if that solved their problem, you can ask them to:

    • In GitHub Discussions: mark the comment as the answer.
    • In GitHub Issues: close the issue.

Watch the GitHub repository

You can "watch" DATAMIMIC in GitHub (clicking the "watch" button at the top right): https://github.com/rapiddweller/datamimic. πŸ‘€

If you select "Watching" instead of "Releases only" you will receive notifications when someone creates a new issue or question. You can also specify that you only want to be notified about new issues, or discussions, or PRs, etc.

Then you can try and help them solve those questions.

Ask Questions

You can create a new question in the GitHub repository, for example to:

  • Ask a question or ask about an issue.
  • Suggest a new feature.

Note: if you do it, then we might ask you to support us and the community. πŸ˜‰

Review Pull Requests

You can help us review pull requests from the community contributions.

Please be kind. πŸ€—

Here's what to have in mind and how to review a pull request:

Understand the problem

  • First, make sure you understand the issue that the pull request is trying to solve. It might have a longer thread in a GitHub Discussion or issue with additional context.

  • There's also a good chance that the pull request is not actually needed because the problem can be solved in a different way. Then you can suggest or ask about that.

Check the code

  • Check and read the code, see if it makes sense, run it locally and see if it actually solves the problem.

  • Subsequently, please leave a comment indicating that you have really executed the code; this will inform us that you have indeed reviewed it.

Tests

  • Help us to check that the PR has tests.

  • Check that the tests fail before the PR. 🚨

  • Then check that the tests pass after the PR. βœ…

  • Many PRs don't have tests, you can remind them to add tests, or you can even suggest some tests yourself. That's one of the things that consume most time and you can help a lot with that.

  • Then also comment what you tried, that way I'll know that you checked it. πŸ€“

Create a Pull Request

You can contribute to the source code with Pull Requests, for example:

  • To fix an existing issue/bug.
    • Make sure to add tests.
  • To add a new feature.
    • Make sure to add tests.
    • Make sure to add documentation if it's relevant.

Help Maintain DATAMIMIC

Help our team to maintain DATAMIMIC! πŸ€“

There's a lot of work to do, and for most of it, YOU can support us.

The main tasks that you can do right now are:

Those two tasks are what consume time the most. That's the main work of maintaining DATAMIMIC community edition.

If you can help our team with that, you are helping to maintain DATAMIMIC and making sure it keeps advancing faster and better. πŸš€

Thanks from the rapiddweller team and the entire DATAMIMIC community! πŸš€