Contributing to Open Babel

• Overview
• Developing Open Babel
  • Developer Resources
  • Working with the Development Code
    • Keeping up to date with Git
  • Modular design of code base
  • Error Handling and Warnings
  • Lazy Evaluation
• Documentation
  • Adding New Code
  • Modifying Old Code
  • User documentation and tutorials
• Adding a new test
  • Running tests
  • Test using C++
  • Test using a command-line executable
  • Test the API using Python
  • Some final comments
• Software Archaeology
  • Documentation and Code Readability
  • Code Maintenance