OpenLightingProject / OpenLightingProject/open-fixture-library
Add General Device Type Format (GDTF) Plugin
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- Dominant language
- JSON
- Stars
- 258
- Forks
- 100
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
The GDTF is a cooperation by Vectorworks, MA Lighting and Robe to create a common open fixture format. It remains to be seen if this format actually becomes an industry standard, but we should create a plugin for it.
There's an open wiki for documentation / specification of the format, so we don't have to reverse-engineer something. The XSD schema is also publicly available.
- import plugin #592
- export plugin (will be difficult!)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the GDTF wiki documentation and the published gdtf.xsd schema, then inspect the completed import plugin in issue #592 for project conventions. Done means adding the requested GDTF export plugin, with its output conforming to the documented format.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- xml
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100