How best to contribute to this project?

[JimWhiteheadUCSC]

Hi!

I lead a lab at the Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, where we're doing a procedural road network generation project that makes use of pyodrx. Thank you for creating this project, it has been a huge help for us!!

We're at the point where we're starting to add new functionality to the project (e.g., putting in stop signs and speed markers), and were wondering how you'd like to handle new functionality additions. We'd like to give back to the project, and help it along.

We could just make a pull request and you can accept/reject. That would certainly be best for smaller changes.

But, for bigger changes, like the stop signs, you might already have ideas on how you want these to be implemented, and hence it might make sense to have a conversation first.

Thoughts?

• Jim Whitehead

[MandolinMicke]

Hi Jim

Nice to hear that you find it useful!

At the moment we have no real implementation ideas, however the next thing we would like to have implemented is the signals part (speed signs etc.), but we don't know when we will have time to actually do it, so if you want to contribute that's great!

When it comes to implementation wise, just follow the standard that is setup for all the classes with:
init - with the the requiered inputs
get_attributes - get the attributes of that element
get_element - get the xml element (ElementTree) of that specific class
add_... - if you can add multiple instances of a similar object (like one Signal to Signals)

Then of course follow the documentation standard so pdoc3 can be used to generate the html, and make atleast simple tests for each class to make sure they can generate their xml part (like most of the tests).

If you guys want, we can have a chat some day (we are situated in Sweden so a narrow time slot to fit us both (6PM SWE -> 9AM CA)). It would also be nice to hear how you are using the framework for your project.

//Micke

[jakobkaths]

Hi everybody,

also from my side many thanks for this project! I just created a PullRequest for another change and I was wondering how far along the signal implementation is, as this would also be something on our agenda for introduction here. Let me know if I can be of any help here.

Jakob

[mander76]

Sadly I haven't had time yet. I have read the parts about the signals in opendrive, and it was quite alot of inputs.. So not a very simple task to make it nice.

[JimWhiteheadUCSC]

Ishaan Paranjape, a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz (cc'ed) has a preliminary signals implementation, and is aiming for submitting a pull request this weekend. - Jim

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[jakobkaths]

Hi Jim, that sounds great! I actually started implementing „objects“ and was thinking to create a baseclass for those and the „signals“ as they share many attributes. But we could still consider that once any of the two have a pull request. And yes, they indeed have many attributes, but for a start it works fairly well with a few defaults. Excited to see this grow! Jakob

[ishaan95]

Hello,

I have submitted a pull request for the signals feature. Please let me know if there are any questions or changes to be made.

Thanks,
Ishaan

[mander76]

Now it's merged, thanks @ishaan95 for the additions :)

@jakobkaths , now hopefully you can look into your base class idea.