CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribute to UnROOT.jl

To make your first PR to this repo:

1. Have basic understanding of Git. The tutorial Making a first Julia pull request could be helpful for learning both git and how to contribute to the Julia language projects.
2. Set up your local environment. We recommend use Revise.jl workflow.
3. Familiarise yourself with the source code. See Source code organization.
4. Make changes & test them & submit PR.

Contribution example ideas

Core functionality

1. Parsing more ROOT types
2. Implement writing .root files

Help Wanted Issues

One of the best ways to contribute is by looking at issues labelled help wanted. These issues are not always beginner-friendly. However, you are welcome to ask clarifying questions or just browse help wanted issues to see if there is anything that seems interesting to help with.

Write tutorials

We can always use more tutorial on how to use UnROOT.jl efficiently and with other visualization or statistics tools in Julia for doing HEP.

Contribution guidelines

• We use the GitHub issue page for any bug filing or feature request, feel free to use them.
• For usage related discussion, feel free to use HEP tag on Julia discourse or join our mailist.

source code organization

The following table shows how the code is organized:

Directory	Contents
docs	Documentation
paper	JOSS paper
src	Source code
test	Test suites
test/samples	.root files for tests