About

This page contains some general information about this project, and recommendations about contributing.

About

Contributing

If you like this package, consider contributing! You can send bug reports (or fix them and send your code), add examples to the documentation, or propose new features.

Below some conventions that we follow when contributing to this package are detailed. For specific guidelines on documentation, see the Documentations Guidelines wiki.

Branches and pull requests (PR)

We use a standard pull request policy: You work in a private branch and eventually add a pull request, which is then reviewed by other programmers and merged into the master branch.

Each pull request should be pushed in a new branch with the name of the author followed by a descriptive name, e.g., mforets/my_feature. If the branch is associated to a previous discussion in one issue, we use the name of the issue for easier lookup, e.g., mforets/7.

Unit testing and continuous integration (CI)

This project is synchronized with GitHub Actions such that each PR gets tested before merging (and the build is automatically triggered after each new commit). For the maintainability of this project, it is important to make all unit tests pass.

To run the unit tests locally, you can do:

julia> using Pkg

julia> Pkg.test("MathematicalSystems")

We also advise adding new unit tests when adding new features to ensure long-term support of your contributions.

Contributing to the documentation

New functions and types should be documented according to our guidelines directly in the source code.

You can view the source code documentation from inside the REPL by typing ? followed by the name of the type or function. For example, the following command will print the documentation of the AbstractSystem type:

julia> ?LinearContinuousSystem

This documentation you are currently reading is written in Markdown, and it relies on Documenter.jl to produce the HTML layout. The sources for creating this documentation are found in docs/src. You can easily include the documentation that you wrote for your functions or types there (see the Documenter.jl guide or our sources for examples).

To generate the documentation locally, run make.jl, e.g., by executing the following command in the terminal:

$ julia --color=yes docs/make.jl

Note that this also runs all doctests which will take some time.

This package originated from Hybrid Systems and systems definitions for reachability problems within JuliaReach.

Below we list more related projects.

Package name	Description
HybridSystems.jl	Hybrid Systems definitions in Julia.
LTISystems.jl	Julia package for representing linear time-invariant system models and operations defined on them.
ControlToolbox.jl	Analysis and design tools for control systems.
ronisbr/ControlToolbox.jl	A Control Toolbox for Julia language.
DynamicalSystemsBase.jl	Definitions of core system and data types used in the ecosystem of DynamicalSystems.jl.
ControlSystems.jl	A Control Systems Toolbox for Julia
ModelingToolkit.jl	A toolkit for modeling and creating DSLs for Scientific Computing in Julia

Credits