Contributing

Thank you for your interest about Rivalcfg. Here you will find all the useful information to contribute.

Questions

If you have any question, you can:

Unsupported devices

You just bought a brand new SteelSeries mouse and it is not supported by rivalcfg? The first thing to do is to check if someone else already reported this on the issue tracker on Github:

If not, open an issue providing the following information:

  • The mouse vendor_id, product_id and product_string. On Linux you will find this information with the following command:

    lsusb -d 1038:

    Example result for a Rival 100:

    Bus 005 Device 009: ID 1038:1702 SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Rival 100 Gaming Mouse

  • When possible, a link to the product description (on the SteelSeries website or any other online shop)

Then, it depend…

Sometimes SteelSeries releases new mice that are identical to an existing model but only with some aesthetic changes (like the Rival 100, Rival 100 Dota 2 Edition, and so on). In that case, it will be easy to support your mouse.

And sometimes it is a brand new model that will need some reverse engineering… This can only be done by someone that owns the mouse. It can be you (it is easier than you think), it can be me (if I can find someone to lend me the mouse) or it can be any other contributor.

You can also consider supporting the project using the Sponsor button on Github to allow me buying new SteelSeries mice in order to support them in rivalcfg.

Bugs

Rivalcfg does not work? Please open an issue on Github with as much information as possible.

When possible:

  • Run the rivalcfg --print-debug command and include its output to your report (note that you may need to run this command as root to get all information).

If this command cannot be run, include at least the following information:

  • What is your operating system / Linux distribution (and its version),

  • Which SteelSeries mouse you have trouble with,

  • How you installed Rivalcfg.

And always provide all error messages outputted by Rivalcfg.

Pull Requests

Please consider filing a bug before starting to work on a new feature or on the support of a new mouse. This will allow us to discuss the best way to do it. This is of course not necessary if you just want to fix some typo in the documentation or small errors in the code.

Please note that your code must pass tests and follow the coding style defined by the pep8. The code of this project is automatically checked by Flake8 and the coding style is enforced using Black.

Running The Tests

You will first have to install nox:

pip3 install nox

Then you can check for lint error:

nox --session lint

If Black reports you coding style errors, you can automatically fix them with this command:

nox -s black_fix

To run the tests use:

nox --session test

To run the tests only for a specific Python version, you can use following commands (the corresponding Python interpreter must be installed on your machine):

nox --session test-3.8
nox --session test-3.9
nox --session test-3.10
nox --session test-3.11
nox --session test-3.12
nox --session test-3.13

Building The Documentation

You will first have to install nox:

pip3 install nox

Then you can run the following command:

nox --session gendoc