Contributing

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Description

Provide document to help new developers setup the code locally. Outline instructions to making Pull Requests.

Affected Components

• Contributing.md
• Spark-Website Wiki

Proposed Solution

• Spark-Website Wiki for an overview of Programming
• Specify Instructions are for Ubuntu Distribution of Linux/WSL
• Link to Blog for Mac Setup or Military Network Friendly GitHub
• Install Python version 3
• Overview of SQLAlchemy and ORMs
• Overview of PostgreSQL of Comparable Database Engines
• Install PostgreSQL v 10
• Create spark-database table with Password
• Setup Local version of code
• Overview of Virtual Environments and Version Controlling
• Initialize Virtual Environment
• Install Requirements
• Overview of Alembic and Migrations
• Initialize User Table
• Link to Readme for instructions on manipulating database
• Submit Issues
• Submit Pull Requests (Including purpose of, limitations of, and instructions to, lint code)
• Review Pull Requests