EMPD-data pull requests

The main idea of the EMPD-admin is to use it as an interactive webapp in new data contributions to the EMPD. These data contributions come in as pull requests to the EMPD2/EMPD-data repository.

The EMPD-admin has a dedicated Github user account that you can contact if you write @EMPD-admin in a comment in a pull request. You can then send him any of the command line commands. E.g. you can test the data contribution with the test command, by writing

Please refer to the empd-admin Command Line Interface for a documentation on the other available commands and to the Getting started section for an introduction on the workflow of a data contribution.

Note

Before contacting the EMPD-admin, you should make sure that he is up and running. You can do so by visiting empd-admin.herokuapp.com

The EMPD-admin runs as a free webapp on heroku. Because of this, it get’s suspended if there has been no request for more than 30 minutes. It will be started if someone writes a command at Github, but that may take too long, leading to a rejection of your command. If that happens, just send the command again after one minute, and it will be processed.

Please note that expensive commands may also take their time to be processed. Generally, everything that involves importing the data into postgres or running the tests for large contributions, takes their time.