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add script to generate all non-code files automatically if they don't exist

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python

Research direction

Start by reviewing the requested generated files: setup.py, conf.py, MANIFEST.in, README.md, requirements.txt, license.txt, api.rst, index.rst, tutorials.rst, and the example notebook. Define how the script should detect missing files and how setup.py values affect them. Done means missing package, test, example, and documentation files are generated and the requested GitHub, Travis, Read the Docs, release, fork, and pip steps are output as a to-do list.

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Description

  • setup.py (use folder name as name of project, and if any of the below are specified, change the script accordingly to reference them)

other info could be read from setup.py

  • conf.py
  • MANIFEST.in
  • README.md
  • requirements.txt
  • license.txt
  • basic test (so pytest can run)
  • basic example (so sphinx compiles)
  • api.rst
  • index.rst
  • tutorials.rst
  • sample tutorial notebook

then output a "to do" list of how to:

  • set up github web hooks for slack
  • get travis configured
  • compile sphinx web page
  • register on readthedocs and publish readthedocs page
  • do a github release
  • set up forks on github for development (once package is "live," rather than modifying master branch directly)
  • push to pip (after package is ready for release)
  • install package from pip
Dominant language
Jupyter Notebook
Stars
17
Forks
4
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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