Guide for IPython core Developers
This guide documents the development of IPython itself. Alternatively, developers of third party tools and libraries that use IPython should see the :doc:`../development/index`.
For instruction on how to make a developer install see :ref:`devinstall`.
Backporting Pull requests
All pull requests should usually be made against master, if a Pull Request need to be backported to an earlier release; then it should be tagged with the correct milestone. We then use ghpro <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ghpro> to automatically list and apply the PR on other branches. For example:
$ backport-pr todo --milestone 5.2 [...snip..] The following PRs have been backported 9848 9851 9953 9955 The following PRs should be backported: 9417 9863 9925 9947 $ backport-pr apply 5.x 9947 [...snip...]
Old Documentation
Out of date documentation is still available and have been kept for archival purposes.
Note
Developers documentation used to be on the IPython wiki, but are now out of date. The wiki is though still available for historical reasons: Old IPython GitHub Wiki.