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Contributing Guide

Thank you for investing your time in contributing to the Eclipse-BaSyx-Python SDK!

In this guide you will get an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a PR, reviewing, and merging the PR.

Furthermore, it gives some guidelines on how to write commit and pull request messages, as well as on codestyle and testing.

Issues

In order to open an issue, go to https://github.com/eclipse-basyx/basyx-python-sdk/issues and click "New Issue".

The first step for a good issue is a descriptive title. The title is a brief description of the issue, ideally 72 characters or fewer using imperative language. Furthermore, if you know which module is the cause of your issue, please mention it at the beginning of the issue title.

Here are some example for a good title:

model.datatypes: Missing type `xs:someThingMadeUp`
compliance_tool: Fail to check aasx package without thumbnail
adapter.aasx: `Property.value` `0` are converted into `NoneType`

As you can see, inline code blocks (the backticks) are used to highlight class names or types.

In the issue message, use full text or bullet points to describe your issue in detail. Please include a short paragraph on each of

  • Expected behavior: A description of what the expected behavior should be, so that maintainers can understand how the issue differs from the intended functionality.
  • Actual behavior: A description of what is actually happening, which can help pinpoint the cause of the issue.
  • Environment: Information about the operating system, the SDK version used, the version of the specification used, or other relevant technical details that may be contributing to the issue.

Additionally, if you have ideas on how to address the issue, please include them here!

Contribute Changes

Here's the standard workflow to contribute changes to Eclipse-BaSyx-Python.

Before contributing, please make sure, you fill out the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). This is done by creating an Eclipse account for your git e-mail address and then submitting the following form: https://accounts.eclipse.org/user/eca. The E-Mail address used to sign the ECA is the same one that needs to be used for committing.

After this, the workflow to submit contributions to Eclipse-BaSyx-Python is pretty standard, as the picture (based on this blog-post by Tomas Beuzen) below shows:

CONTRIBUTING_Workflow

  1. Fork the Eclipse-BaSyx Repository
  2. Clone your fork to your development machine and add Eclipse-BaSyx as upstream:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/eclipse-basyx/basyx-python-sdk
  1. Pull the branch you want to contribute to:
git pull upstream <branch_name>

Now, you can create a new local branch in which you can create your changes and actually do your changes. When you're done with that, continue with:

  1. Push the new branch to your fork:
git push origin <your_new_branch>
  1. Create a Pull Request from your fork <your_new_branch> to the Eclipse-BaSyx-Python <branch_name>

The Eclipse-BaSyx-Python maintainers will then review the pull request and communicate the further steps via the comments.

Commit and Pull Request Messages

In order to effectively communicate, there are some conventions to respect when writing commit messages and pull requests.

Similarily to when creating an issue, the commit title, as well as the PR title should be as short as possible, ideally 72 characters or fewer using imperative language. If a specific module is affected, please mention it at the beginning of the title.

Here are some examples:

model.datatypes: Add type `xs:someThingMadeUp`
compliance_tool: Fix fail to check aasx package without thumbnail
adapter.aasx: Fix `Property.value` `0` converted into `NoneType`

The following guidelines are for the commit or PR message text:

  • No imperative, full text, bullet points where necessary
  • Max. 72 characters per line
  • There should be always 2 things in a Commit/PR message:
    • Currently, the situation is this
    • Motivate, why is it now different?
  • Don't describe what has been done, as this can be looked up in the code
  • Write as long as necessary, as short as possible
  • Where sensible, reference the specification, ideally via https://link/to.pdf#Page=123
  • Optionally, where applicable reference respective issues: Fixes #123

Codestyle and Testing

Our code follows the PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code. Additionally, we use PEP 484 -- Type Hints throughout the code to enable type checking the code.

Before submitting any changes, make sure to let mypy and pycodestyle check your code and run the unit tests with Python's builtin unittest. To install the required tools, use:

pip install mypy pycodestyle

Running all checks:

mypy basyx test
pycodestyle --max-line-length 120 basyx test
python -m unittest

We aim to cover our code with test by at least 80%. To check test coverage, you can use coverage:

pip install coverage
coverage run --source basyx --branch -m unittest
coverage report -m