Community

Users

\(\omega radlib\) is intended to be a community effort, and community needs communication.

The key communication platform for \(\omega radlib\) is beside the wradlib GitHub repo the openradar-discourse discussion forum. Through both ways, you can help to improve \(\omega radlib\) by reporting bugs, proposing enhancements, or by contributing code snippets (in any programming language) and documentation of algorithms.

You can also ask other users and developers for help, or use your own knowledge and experience to help other users. We strongly encourage you to subscribe to openradar-discourse. Check it out!

How to contribute to \(\omega radlib\)?

We need your help to enhance the capabilities of \(\omega radlib\)! Is there an algorithm you would consider useful? Please provide code (in any programming language) or documentation. We will it a try to integrate this algorithm in \(\omega radlib\).

However, there is an even better way: Start a Pull Request!

  • Step 1: Fork your own \(\omega radlib\) repository from the \(\omega radlib\) main repo.

  • Step 2: Implement your changes into the forked repository. Test your code.

  • Step 3: Now you want to feed these changes back into the main \(\omega radlib\) development branch? Start a Pull Request!

  • Step 4: We will review your changes. On approval, we will merge your fork back into the main \(\omega radlib\) branch.

  • Step 5: Now everyone can benefit from your improvements.

A step-by-step tutorial for a pull request can be found here.

Finally, you are welcome to contribute examples of your own \(\boldsymbol \omega radlib\) applications in our recipes section. There, you will also find a guide on how to submit your recipes to the \(\omega radlib\) documentation pages.