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+layout: page
+title: GitHub Actions
+permalink: /developer/gha_basic
+nav_order: 7
+parent: Developer information
+---
+
+# GitHub Actions
+
+The recommended CI for Scikit-HEP is GitHub Actions (GHA), although it's
+predecessor (Azure) is also in heavy usage, and other popular services (Travis,
+Appveyor, and Circle CI) may be found in a few packages. GHA is preferred due
+to the flexible, extensible design and the tight integration with the GitHub
+permissions model (and UI). Here is a guide in setting up a new package with GHA.
+
+GHA is made up of workflows which consist of actions. Here are some of the
+workflows you will probably want in your package. These should be in a file
+named `.github/workflows/main.yml` or similar.
+
+## Header
+
+Your main CI workflow file should begin something like this:
+
+```yaml
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches: master
+    tags:
+    - 'v*'
+
+jobs:
+```
+
+This gives the workflow a nice name, and defines the conditions under which it
+runs. This will run on pull requests or pushes to master, and on version tags. If
+you use a develop branch, you probably will want to include that.
+
+## Pre-commit
+
+If you use pre-commit (and you should), this is a job that will check pre-commit for you:
+
+```yaml
+  pre-commit:
+    name: Format
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+    - name: set PY
+      run: echo "::set-env name=PY::$(python -c 'import hashlib, sys;print(hashlib.sha256(sys.version.encode()+sys.executable.encode()).hexdigest())')"
+    - uses: actions/cache@v1
+      with:
+        path: ~/.cache/pre-commit
+        key: pre-commit|${{ env.PY }}|${{ hashFiles('.pre-commit-config.yaml') }}
+    - uses: pre-commit/action@v1.1.0
+```
+
+## Unit tests
+
+Implementing unit tests is also easy. Since you should be following best
+practices listed in the previous sections, this becomes an almost directly
+copy-and-paste formula, regardless of the package details.
+
+```yaml
+  checks:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version:
+        - 2.7
+        - 3.6
+        - 3.8
+    name: Check Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+    - name: Install package
+      run: python -m pip install -e .[test]
+
+    - name: Test package
+      run: python -m pytest
+```
+
+A few things to note from above:
+
+The matrix should contain the versions you are interested in. You can also test
+on other OS's if you are building any extensions or are worried about your
+package on macOS or Windows. Fail-fast is optional.
+
+You need to use version 1 of the checkout, since version 2 strips too much
+from the repository for `setuptools_scm` to work.
+
+The formula here for installing should be identical for all users; and using
+PEP 517/518 builds, you are even guaranteed a consistent wheel will be produced
+just as if you were building a final package.
+
+## Distribution: Pure Python wheels
+
+We will cover binary wheels later, but for a simple universal (pure Python)
+package, the procedure is simple.
+
+```yaml
+  dist:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+      with:
+        python-version: 3.8
+
+    - name: Install wheel and sdist requirements
+      run: python -m pip install "setuptools>=42.0" "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4" "wheel"
+
+    - name: Build sdist
+      run: python setup.py sdist
+
+    - name: Build wheel
+      run: >
+        python -m pip wheel . -w wheels &&
+        ls -lh wheels &&
+        mkdir -p dist &&
+        cp wheels/<packagename>*any.whl dist/
+
+    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
+      with:
+        name: DistPackage
+        path: dist
+
+    - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+      with:
+        user: __token__
+        password: ${{ secrets.pypi_password }}
+      if: github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags')
+```
+
+A few things to note that are new to this job:
+
+We install SDist requirements by hand since `python setup.py sdist` does not
+get the benefits of having pip install things. If you have any special
+requirements in your `pyproject.toml`, you'll need to list them here. This is
+special just for the sdist, not for making wheels (which should be done by the
+PEP 517/518 process for you).
+
+You need to put your base package name in for `<packagename>` in the copy
+command; pip will put all wheels needed in the directory you specify, and you
+need to just pick out your wheels for upload. You don't want to upload numpy or
+some other wheel it had to build (not common anymore, but can happen).
+
+We upload the artifact just to make it available via the GitHub PR/Checks API.
+You can download a file to test locally if you want without making a release.
+
+Finally, only  on release tags, we publish to PyPI. You'll need to go to PyPI,
+generate a token for your project, and put it into `pypi_password` on your
+repo's secrets page.
+
+