docs(contributing): add contribution and new-container guide (#460)

# change

Document how to contribute, with initial focus on making local
development smooth.


# Tasks
- [x] Finish the `new-container` guide
- [x] Remove any old docs referring to 
- [x] Update `README.md` to point at the contribution guide
- [x] Update `README.md` to add badges (supported python versions, etc)
and to give kudos to current and past maintainers and contributors

---------

Co-authored-by: Dave Ankin <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Jan Katins <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Max Pfeiffer <[email protected]>

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Contributing to `testcontainers-python`
+
+Welcome to the `testcontainers-python` community!
+This should give you an idea about how we build, test and release `testcontainers-python`!
+
+Highly recommended to read this document thoroughly to understand what we're working on right now
+and what our priorities are before you are trying to contribute something.
+
+This will greatly increase your chances of getting prompt replies as the maintainers are volunteers themselves.
+
+## Before you Begin
+
+We recommend following these steps:
+
+1. Finish reading this document.
+2. Read the [recently updated issues][1]
+3. Look for existing issues on the subject you are interested in - we do our best to label everything correctly
+
+
+## Local Development
+
+### Pre-Requisites
+
+You need to have the following tools available to you:
+- `make` - You'll need a GNU Make for common developer activities
+- `poetry` - This is the primary package manager for the project
+- `pyenv` **Recommended**: For installing python versions for your system.
+  Poetry infers the current latest version from what it can find on the `PATH` so you are still fine if you don't use `pyenv`.
+
+### Build and test
+
+
+- Run `make install` to get `poetry` to install all dependencies and set up `pre-commit`
+  - **Recommended**: Run `make` or `make help` to see other commands available to you.
+- After this, you should have a working virtual environment and proceed with writing code with your favourite IDE
+- **TIP**: You can run `make core/tests` or `make module/<my-module>/tests` to run the tests specifically for that to speed up feedback cycles
+- You can also run `make lint` to run the `pre-commit` for the entire codebase.
+
+
+## Adding new containers
+
+We have an [issue template](.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/new-container.md) for adding new containers, please refer to that for more information.
+Once you've talked to the maintainers (we do our best to reply!) then you can proceed with contributing the new container.
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> PLease raise an issue before you try to contribute a new container! It helps maintainers understand your use-case and motivation.
+> This way we can keep pull requests foruced on the "how", not the "why"! :pray:
+> It also gives maintainers a chance to give you last-minute guidance on caveats or expectations, particularly with
+> new extra dependencies and how to manage them.
+
+
+## Raising Issues
+
+We have [Issue Templates][2] to cover most cases, please try to adhere to them, they will guide you through the process.
+Try to look through the existing issues before you raise a new one.
+
+
+## Releasing Versions
+
+We have automated Semantic Versioning and release via [release-please](workflows/release-please.yml).
+This takes care of:
+- Detecting the next version, based on the commits that landed on `main`
+- When a Release PR has been merged
+  - Create a GitHub Release with the CHANGELOG included
+  - Update the [CHANGELOG](../CHANGELOG.md), similar to the GitHub Release
+  - Release to PyPI via a [trusted publisher](https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/using-a-publisher/)
+  - Automatically script updates in files where it's needed instead of hand-crafting it (i.e. in `pyproject.toml`)
+
+> [!CRITICAL]
+> Community modules are supported on a best-effort basis and for maintenance reasons, any change to them
+> is only covered under minor and patch changes.
+>
+> Community modules changes DO NOT contribute to major version changes!
+>
+> If your community module container was broken by a minor or patch version change, check out the change logs!
+
+# Thank you!
+
+Thanks for reading, feedback on documentation is always welcome!
+
+[1]: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc "Recently Updated Issues showing you what we're focusing on"
+[2]: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/new/choose "List of current issue templates, please use them"

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/new-container.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+name: New Container
+about: Tell the Testcontainers-Python team about a container you'd like to have support for.
+title: 'New Container: '
+labels: '🚀 enhancement'
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+<!-- feel free to remove any irrelevant section(s) below -->
+
+**What is the new container you'd like to have?**
+
+Please link some docker containers as well as documentation/arguments to the benefits of having this container.
+
+**Why not just use a generic container for this?**
+
+Please describe why the `DockerContainer("my-image:latest")` approach is not useful enough.
+
+Having a dedicated `TestContainer` usually means the need for some or all of these:
+- complicated setup/configuration
+- the wait strategy is complex for the container, usually more than just an http wait
+
+**Other references:**
+
+Include any other relevant reading material about the enhancement.

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md

@@ -9,27 +9,33 @@ assignees: ''
 
 <!-- feel free to remove any irrelevant section(s) below -->
 
-**What are you trying to do?**
+## What are you trying to do?
 
 Ask your question here
 
-**Where are you trying to do it?**
+## Where are you trying to do it?
 
 Provide a self-contained code snippet that illustrates the bug or unexpected behavior.
 Ideally, include a link to a public repository with a minimal project where someone from the
 testcontainers-python can submit a PR with a solution to the problem you are facing with the library.
 
-**Runtime environment**
+## Runtime environment
 
-Provide a summary of your runtime environment. Which operating system, python version, and docker version are you using? What is the version of `testcontainers-python` you are using? You can run the following commands to get the relevant information.
+Provide a summary of your runtime environment. Which operating system, python version, and docker version are you using?
+What is the version of `testcontainers-python` you are using? You can run the following commands to get the relevant information.
+
+Paste the results of the bash below
+
+```bash
+uname -a
+echo "------"
+docker info
+echo "------"
+poetry run python --version
+echo "------"
+poetry show --tree
+```
 
 ```bash
-# Get the operating system information (on a unix os).
-$ uname -a
-# Get the python version.
-$ python --version
-# Get the docker version and other docker information.
-$ docker info
-# Get all python packages.
-$ pip freeze
+paste-me-here
 ```

.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/new_container.md

@@ -1,8 +1,40 @@
-You have implemented a new container and would like to contribute it? Great! Here are the necessary steps.
-
-- [ ] Create a new feature directory and populate it with the package structure [described in the documentation](https://testcontainers-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#package-structure). Copying one of the existing features is likely the best way to get started.
-- [ ] Implement the new feature (typically in `__init__.py`) and corresponding tests.
-- [ ] Update the feature `README.rst` and add it to the table of contents (`toctree` directive) in the top-level `README.rst`.
-- [ ] Add a line `[feature name]` to the list of components in the  GitHub Action workflow in `.github/workflows/main.yml` to run tests, build, and publish your package when pushed to the `main` branch.
-- [ ] Rebase your development branch on `main` (or merge `main` into your development branch).
-- [ ] Add a line `-e file:[feature name]` to `requirements.in` and open a pull request. Opening a pull request will automatically generate lock files to ensure reproducible builds (see the [pip-tools documentation](https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for details). Finally, run `python get_requirements.py --pr=[your PR number]` to fetch the updated requirement files (the build needs to have succeeded).
+# New Container
+
+<!-- You have implemented a new container and would like to contribute it? Great! Here are the necessary checklist steps. -->
+
+Fixes ...
+
+<!--
+Please do not raise a PR for new container without having raised an issue first.
+It helps reduce unnecessary work for you and the maintainers!
+-->
+
+
+# PR Checklist
+
+- [ ] Your PR title follows the [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) syntax
+  as we make use of this for detecting Semantic Versioning changes.
+- [ ] Your PR allows maintainers to edit your branch, this will speed up resolving minor issues!
+- [ ] The new container is implemented under `modules/*`
+  - Your module follows [PEP 420](https://peps.python.org/pep-0420/) with implicit namespace packages
+    (if unsure, look at other existing community modules)
+  - Your package namespacing follows `testcontainers.<modulename>.*`
+    and you DO NOT have an `__init__.py` above your module's level.
+  - Your module has it's own tests under `modules/*/tests`
+  - Your module has a `README.rst` and hooks in the `.. auto-class` and `.. title` of your container
+  - Implement the new feature (typically in `__init__.py`) and corresponding tests.
+- [ ] Your module is added in `pyproject.toml`
+  - it is declared under `tool.poetry.packages` - see other community modules
+  - it is declared under `tool.poetry.extras` with the same name as your module name,
+    we still prefer adding _NO EXTRA DEPENDENCIES_, meaning `mymodule = []` is the preferred addition
+    (see the notes at the bottom)
+- [ ] The `INDEX.rst` at the project root includes your module under the `.. toctree` directive
+- [ ] Your branch is up to date (or we'll use GH's "update branch" function through the UI)
+
+# Preferred implementation
+
+- The current consensus among maintainers is to try to avoid enforcing the client library
+  for the given tools you are triyng to implement.
+- This means we want you to avoid adding specific libraries as dependencies to `testcontainers`.
+- Therefore, you should implement the configuration and the waiting with as little extra as possible
+- You may still find it useful to add your preferred client library as a dev dependency

Dockerfile

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-ARG version=3.8
-FROM python:${version}
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION
+FROM python:${version}-slim-bookworm
 
 WORKDIR /workspace
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip \
     && apt-get update \
     && apt-get install -y \
         freetds-dev \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# install requirements we exported from poetry
 COPY build/requirements.txt requirements.txt
-COPY setup.py README.rst ./
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# copy project source
 COPY . .

Makefile

@@ -1,84 +1,78 @@
-PYTHON_VERSIONS = 3.9 3.10 3.11
+.DEFAULT_GOAL := help
+
+
 PYTHON_VERSION ?= 3.10
 IMAGE = testcontainers-python:${PYTHON_VERSION}
-RUN = docker run --rm -it
-# Get all directories that contain a setup.py and get the directory name.
 PACKAGES = core $(addprefix modules/,$(notdir $(wildcard modules/*)))
 
-# All */dist folders for each of the packages.
-DISTRIBUTIONS = $(addsuffix /dist,${PACKAGES})
 UPLOAD = $(addsuffix /upload,${PACKAGES})
-# All */tests folders for each of the test suites.
 TESTS = $(addsuffix /tests,$(filter-out meta,${PACKAGES}))
 TESTS_DIND = $(addsuffix -dind,${TESTS})
 DOCTESTS = $(addsuffix /doctests,$(filter-out modules/README.md,${PACKAGES}))
-# All linting targets.
-LINT = $(addsuffix /lint,${PACKAGES})
-
-# Targets to build a distribution for each package.
-dist: ${DISTRIBUTIONS}
-${DISTRIBUTIONS} : %/dist : %/setup.py
-	cd $* \
-	&& python setup.py bdist_wheel \
-	&& twine check dist/*
-
-# Targets to run the test suite for each package.
-tests : ${TESTS}
-${TESTS} : %/tests :
+
+
+install:  ## Set up the project for development
+	poetry install --all-extras
+	poetry run pre-commit install
+
+build:  ## Build the python package
+	poetry build && poetry run twine check dist/*
+
+tests: ${TESTS}  ## Run tests for each package
+${TESTS}: %/tests:
 	poetry run pytest -v --cov=testcontainers.$* $*/tests
 
-# Target to combine and report coverage.
-coverage:
+coverage:  ## Target to combine and report coverage.
 	poetry run coverage combine
 	poetry run coverage report
 	poetry run coverage xml
 	poetry run coverage html
 
-# Target to lint the code.
-lint:
-	pre-commit run -a
-
-# Targets to publish packages.
-upload : ${UPLOAD}
-${UPLOAD} : %/upload :
-	if [ ${TWINE_REPOSITORY}-$* = testpypi-meta ]; then \
-		echo "Cannot upload meta package to testpypi because of missing permissions."; \
-	else \
-		twine upload --non-interactive --skip-existing $*/dist/*; \
-	fi
-
-# Targets to build docker images
-image:
+lint:  ## Lint all files in the project, which we also run in pre-commit
+	poetry run pre-commit run -a
+
+image: ## Make the docker image for dind tests
 	poetry export -f requirements.txt -o build/requirements.txt
-	docker build --build-arg version=${PYTHON_VERSION} -t ${IMAGE} .
+	docker build --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=${PYTHON_VERSION} -t ${IMAGE} .
 
-# Targets to run tests in docker containers
-tests-dind : ${TESTS_DIND}
+DOCKER_RUN = docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
 
-${TESTS_DIND} : %/tests-dind : image
-	${RUN} -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ${IMAGE} \
-		bash -c "make $*/lint $*/tests"
+tests-dind: ${TESTS_DIND}  ## Run the tests in docker containers to test `dind`
+${TESTS_DIND}: %/tests-dind: image
+	${DOCKER_RUN} ${IMAGE} \
+		bash -c "make $*/tests"
 
-# Target to build the documentation
-docs :
+docs: ## Build the docs for the project
 	poetry run sphinx-build -nW . docs/_build
 
 # Target to build docs watching for changes as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/21389615
 docs-watch :
 	poetry run sphinx-autobuild . docs/_build # requires 'pip install sphinx-autobuild'
 
-doctests : ${DOCTESTS}
+doctests: ${DOCTESTS}  ## Run doctests found across the documentation.
 	poetry run sphinx-build -b doctest . docs/_build
 
-${DOCTESTS} : %/doctests :
+${DOCTESTS}: %/doctests:  ##  Run doctests found for a module.
 	poetry run sphinx-build -b doctest -c doctests $* docs/_build
 
-# Remove any generated files.
-clean :
+
+clean:  ## Remove generated files.
 	rm -rf docs/_build
-	rm -rf */build
-	rm -rf */dist
+	rm -rf build
+	rm -rf dist
 	rm -rf */*.egg-info
 
+clean-all: clean ## Remove all generated files and reset the local virtual environment
+	rm -rf .venv
+
 # Targets that do not generate file-level artifacts.
-.PHONY : clean dists ${DISTRIBUTIONS} docs doctests image tests ${TESTS}
+.PHONY: clean docs doctests image tests ${TESTS}
+
+
+# Implements this pattern for autodocumenting Makefiles:
+# https://marmelab.com/blog/2016/02/29/auto-documented-makefile.html
+#
+# Picks up all comments that start with a ## and are at the end of a target definition line.
+.PHONY: help
+help:  ## Display command usage
+	@grep -E '^[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
+[![Poetry](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://python-poetry.org/badge/v0.json)](https://python-poetry.org/)
 [![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff)
-[![image](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/testcontainers.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testcontainers)
-[![image](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/testcontainers.svg)](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/blob/main/LICENSE)
-[![image](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/testcontainers.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testcontainers)
+![PyPI - Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/testcontainers)
+[![PyPI - License](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/testcontainers.svg)](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/blob/main/LICENSE)
+[![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/testcontainers.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testcontainers)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/testcontainers/testcontainers-python)
+![Core Tests](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/actions/workflows/ci-core.yml/badge.svg)
+![Community Tests](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/actions/workflows/ci-community.yml/badge.svg)
+[![Docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/testcontainers-python/badge/?version=latest)](http://testcontainers-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 
+[![Codespace](https://github.com/codespaces/badge.svg)](https://codespaces.new/testcontainers/testcontainers-python)
 
 # Testcontainers Python
 
@@ -30,6 +35,10 @@ For more information, see [the docs][readthedocs].
 
 The snippet above will spin up a postgres database in a container. The `get_connection_url()` convenience method returns a `sqlalchemy` compatible url we use to connect to the database and retrieve the database version.
 
+## Contributing / Development / Release
+
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.
+
 ## Configuration
 
 | Env Variable                            | Example                     | Description                                                                        |