Below we provide a concise description of the process to be adopted for the creation of a new GSIM (i.e. GMPE or IPE) in the OpenQuake hazard library.
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Fork the oq-hazardlib master https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
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Implement the new GMPE using as an example a GMPE already in the oq-hazardlib whose functional form is similar to the new GMPE. https://github.com/gem/oq-hazardlib/tree/master/openquake/hazardlib/gsim
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Create verification tables following the examples that you find here: https://github.com/gem/oq-hazardlib/tree/master/openquake/hazardlib/tests/gsim/data Usually we create verification tables using an independent code provided by the original authors of the new GMPE. If this is not possible - if available - we use an independent implementation available within code accessible on the web.
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Create tests for the new GMPE using the examples available here https://github.com/gem/oq-hazardlib/tree/master/openquake/hazardlib/tests/gsim
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When tests are passing, update the forked repository, rerun test and if everything is still them open a pull request. To run the full suite of tests you must open a terminal and run the commands:
cd <to_hazardlib_root_directory>;
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Create a new .rst file (needed to generate automatically documentation) in this directory (several examples available): https://github.com/gem/oq-hazardlib/tree/master/doc/sphinx/gsim
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Check that the new code fulfils PEP8 standards (usually we do this using tools such as flake8 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8) http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/