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Basic sprint information
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== What is a sprint? ==
# IRC channel is '''#ns-3''' at irc.freenode.net
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= What is a sprint? =
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A sprint is a scheduled time for ns-3 contributors to gather and focus their undivided attention on improving the code, documentation, or tests.  
 
A sprint is a scheduled time for ns-3 contributors to gather and focus their undivided attention on improving the code, documentation, or tests.  
  
Sprints are open to anyone, and are conducted on IRC, and if needed, other virtual meeting technologies.
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Sprints are open to anyone, and have been organized on IRC, and if needed, other virtual meeting technologies (Slack, Zulip, Skype).
 +
* ns-3 Zulip channel is https://ns-3.zulipchat.com
  
The [https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprints Djanjo project] has a good reference and links to some presentations all about coding sprints.
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The [https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprints Django project] has a good reference and links to some presentations all about coding sprints.
  
 
A summary of the results of sprints will be shared with other developers on the ns-developers mailing list.
 
A summary of the results of sprints will be shared with other developers on the ns-developers mailing list.
  
= Upcoming sprints =
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== Results of past sprints ==
 +
 
 +
In the July 2019 IETF 105 hackathon sprint, we focused on updating a number of previously submitted [https://riteproject.eu/dctth/ L4S] models.
 +
* Vivek Jain updated Wenying Dai's previous AccECN and ECN++ patch to the latest ns-3-dev
 +
** https://github.com/Vivek-anand-jain/ns-3-dev-git/tree/ecnpp
 +
* Ankit Deepak updated Shravya KS's previous Dual Queue queue disc, and also PI2 queue disc code
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** https://gitlab.com/tomhenderson/ns-3-dev/tree/dual-queue
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* Mohit Tahiliani and Viyom Mittal updated the ns-3 DCTCP code and performed some cleanup of previous patches
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** https://github.com/tomhenderson/ns-3-dev/tree/dctcp
 +
 
 +
In the March 2015 sprint, we were able to commit about half of the SetGroupName() methods across the codebase.  Following the sprint, the remainder of the codebase was handled, so by the ns-3.23 release, this item was completed.
 +
 
 +
In the December 2014 sprint, we were able to get to zero warnings on the LTE helper directory, and also the mobility model and helper directories.  December sprint warnings fixed (Peter, Piotr, Tom):
 +
* 176 src/mobility/model  (all eliminated)
 +
* 39 src/mobility/helper  (all eliminated)
 +
* 146 src/lte/helper  (all eliminated)
 +
* reduced src/core warnings to below 500 count
 +
 
 +
In the October 2014 sprint, the following warnings were fixed (Budi, Tiago, Tommaso, Natale, Peter):
 +
* src/lte warnings count reduced by ~1500
 +
* src/mobility warnings count reduced by 20
 +
* all 160 propagation warnings eliminated
 +
* all 47 point-to-point warnings eliminated
 +
* all 55 internet warnings eliminated
 +
 
 +
== Future sprints ==
 +
 
 +
None scheduled.
 +
 
 +
== Past sprints ==
 +
 
 +
We had several past sprints; details from the last few are listed below.  Details from older ones can be found in this wiki page history.
 +
 
 +
=== IETF 105 Hackathon, July 20, 2019 ===
 +
* '''Topic:''' IETF L4S models for ns-3
 +
* '''Participating:''' Ankit Deepak, Tom Henderson, Vivek Jain, Viyom Mittal, Mohit Tahiliani
 +
 
 +
A document describing the goals and plan was provided at [https://www.nsnam.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/ns-3-IETF-105-hackathon-plan.pdf this link].
 +
 
 +
* AccECN and ECN++:  https://github.com/Vivek-anand-jain/ns-3-dev-git/tree/ecnpp
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* DualQ Coupled AQM and PI2:  https://gitlab.com/tomhenderson/ns-3-dev/tree/dual-queue
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* DCTCP:  https://github.com/Vivek-anand-jain/ns-3-dev-git/tree/dctcp-latest-rebase
 +
 
 +
=== Friday March 27, 2015, 13h00-19h00 UTC ===
 +
* '''Etherpad:''' http://etherpad.osuosl.org/gMofL8fupm
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* '''Topic:'''  Add Groups to TypeIds:  http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2015-February/012515.html
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* '''Organizer:''' [mailto:tomhend@u.washington.edu Tom Henderson]
 +
* '''Preparation:'''
 +
*# Read the [[Sprints#General_preparation | general preparation]] below.
 +
*# Do you have mercurial installed?  Can you clone http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-dev in some scratch directory to work on this?
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*# Can you run this program successfully?  Then you are ready for testing the work produced by this sprint:
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  <nowiki>./waf --run "third --PrintHelp"
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  Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
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  Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
 +
  'build' finished successfully (3.209s)
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  ns3-dev-third-debug [Program Arguments] [General Arguments]
 +
 
 +
  Program Arguments:
 +
    --nCsma:    Number of "extra" CSMA nodes/devices [3]
 +
    --nWifi:    Number of wifi STA devices [3]
 +
    --verbose:  Tell echo applications to log if true [true]
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 +
  General Arguments:
 +
    --PrintGlobals:              Print the list of globals.
 +
    --PrintGroups:              Print the list of groups.
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    --PrintGroup=[group]:        Print all TypeIds of group.
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    --PrintTypeIds:              Print all TypeIds.
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    --PrintAttributes=[typeid]:  Print all attributes of typeid.
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    --PrintHelp:                Print this help message.
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  </nowiki>
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This command should also work;
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  <nowiki>./waf --run "third --PrintGroups"
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  Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
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  Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
 +
  'build' finished successfully (3.231s)
 +
  Registered TypeId groups:
 +
   
 +
    Mobility</nowiki>
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We then want to be able to list all of the relevant TypeIds:
 +
 
 +
<nowiki>./waf --run "third --PrintGroup=Mobility"
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Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
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Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
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'build' finished successfully (3.202s)
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TypeIds in group Mobility:
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    ns3::GaussMarkovMobilityModel
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    ns3::GridPositionAllocator
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    ns3::RandomBoxPositionAllocator
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    ns3::RandomDirection2dMobilityModel
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    ns3::RandomDiscPositionAllocator
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    ns3::RandomRectanglePositionAllocator
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    ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel
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    ns3::RandomWaypointMobilityModel
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    ns3::SteadyStateRandomWaypointMobilityModel
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    ns3::UniformDiscPositionAllocator
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    ns3::WaypointMobilityModel</nowiki>
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 +
Then the attributes of a given class; this type of capability will be enabled across the codebase if we set the Group names consistently:
 +
 
 +
  <nowiki>./waf --run "third --PrintAttributes=ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel"
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Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
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Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
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'build' finished successfully (3.187s)
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Attributes for TypeId ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel
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    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Bounds=[0|100|0|100]
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        Bounds of the area to cruise.
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    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Direction=[ns3::UniformRandomVariable[Min=0.0|Max=6.283184]]
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        A random variable used to pick the direction (radians).
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    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Distance=[1]
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        Change current direction and speed after moving for this distance.
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    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Mode=[Distance]
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        The mode indicates the condition used to change the current speed and direction
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    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Speed=[ns3::UniformRandomVariable[Min=2.0|Max=4.0]]
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        A random variable used to pick the speed (m/s).
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    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Time=[+1000000000.0ns]
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        Change current direction and speed after moving for this delay.</nowiki>
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* '''Tasks:'''  We will organize to group as many TypeIds as possible, across module lines.  For instance, someone will be assigned the src/applications module, someone will be assigned the src/propagation model, and so on.  When finished or having taken it as far as you can, submit a patch for the module.
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* '''Patches:''' We would like code to be sent in unified diff format.  An easy way to do this is to use the 'hg diff' command, and redirect the output into a file (and submit the file).  For instance, here is the output of 'hg diff' if one line of text is added:
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<nowiki>hg diff
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diff -r 6ea11eb86c17 src/applications/model/application-packet-probe.cc
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--- a/src/applications/model/application-packet-probe.cc Thu Mar 19 21:13:16 2015 +0100
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+++ b/src/applications/model/application-packet-probe.cc Mon Mar 23 15:44:33 2015 -0700
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@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
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{
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  static TypeId tid = TypeId ("ns3::ApplicationPacketProbe")
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    .SetParent<Probe> ()
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+    .SetGroupName ("Application")
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    .AddConstructor<ApplicationPacketProbe> ()
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    .AddTraceSource ( "Output",
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                      "The packet plus its socket address that serve "</nowiki>
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If you type
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  hg diff > application.patch
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you will store the above in a patch file, which can be submitted.
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Please remember that an implementation file (.cc) may contain multiple TypeId declarations, so please search through each file.
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* '''Outcome:''' If successful, the PrintGroups command will have many groups defined (one for each module, perhaps more).  The tutorial and manual will also be extended to describe how to use this feature. 
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*  '''Coordination:'''  We will use IRC and [http://etherpad.org Etherpad] to coordinate the work (make sure multiple people do not work on the same file).
 +
 
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=== Friday December 12, 2014, 14h00-20h00 UTC ===
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* '''Etherpad:''' http://etherpad.osuosl.org/gMofL8fupm
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* '''Topic:'''  Documentation improvement.  https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=938.  In particular, we worked on reducing the number of doxygen warnings that are generated due to missing Doxygen.  This is a long-standing issue that just requires group effort to resolve.
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* '''Organizer:''' [mailto:tomhend@u.washington.edu Tom Henderson]
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* '''Preparation:'''
 +
*# Read the general preparation below
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*# Make sure you have Doxygen installed on your system, and can run the shell script <tt>doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh</tt> (it may take a while to run, and should generate a lot of warnings).
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*# Review this link about building doxygen, and filtering for output that you care about:  http://www.nsnam.org/docs/manual/html/documentation.html#building-doxygen-docs
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*# Review this link for ns-3 specific formatting:  http://www.nsnam.org/docs/manual/html/documentation.html#id1
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*# Contact ns-3-users mailing list or the organizer for help if you have trouble with the above
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* '''Tasks:''' 
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: Fix as many of the doxygen warnings as we can.  A current count of warnings (by module) can be seen here:  http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-commits/2014-November/015994.html.  There is a full log generated that can be used to identify what is the error, and then it can be fixed with a text editor.  How this is planned to work is that contributors who show up will choose a file or set of files (that they are comfortable with documenting) and will try to clear the errors in that file, producing a patch that can be merged to ns-3-dev.
 +
 
 +
: We may also work on [https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1832 reducing includes] in ns-3.
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 +
*  '''Coordination:'''  We will use IRC and [http://etherpad.org Etherpad] to coordinate the work (make sure multiple people do not work on the same file).
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==== How to build Doxygen for ns-3 and find the errors ====
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*  Use mercurial to check out the current copy of ns-3 (see the tutorial if you don't know how to do this):
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*  You must also have [http://doxygen.org Doxygen] installed on your machine.
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Once you have an <tt>ns-3-dev/</tt> directory, take these steps:
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    $ ./waf configure --enable-examples --enable-tests
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    $ ./waf build
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Then, run the script <tt>doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh</tt> from the <tt>ns-3-dev</tt> directory:
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  $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -t -e
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(Note:  this excludes tests and examples; to include warnings for those files, rerun without the -t and -e options).  This will produce lots of summary statistics like:
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  Warnings by module/directory:
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 +
  Count Directory
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  ----- ----------------------------------
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  3390 src/lte/model
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  1532 src/wimax/model
 +
    575 src/core/model
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    570 src/wifi/model
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    488 src/mesh/model
 +
    338 src/visualizer/visualizer
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    229 src/netanim/model
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    213 src/dsr/model
 +
    ...
 +
 
 +
    ...
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Do not worry if the output scrolls beyond the buffer in your terminal window; the full warnings log is written to doc/doxygen.warnings.log.
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Once this is complete, you can use the <tt>doxygen.warnings.report.sh</tt> script to focus on one module or file.  To see just the errors from one module, for example <tt>wifi</tt>:
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  $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -t -e -s -m wifi
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The <tt>-s</tt> option skips the doxygen run, and just reports results
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from the existing warnings log.  Obviously, if you want to see the results of your edits,
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you would omit the <tt>-s</tt> option so you could regenerate the warnings log.
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The <tt>-m <module></tt> option only shows
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results from the <tt>./src/<module></tt> module; after printing the
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warnings counts by file, it shows the actual errors from each file:
 +
 
 +
  ...
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  Filtered Warnings
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  ========================================
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  src/wifi/helper/athstats-helper.h:49: warning: Member EnableAthstats(std::string filename, uint32_t nodeid,
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  uint32_t deviceid) (function) of class ns3::AthstatsHelper is not documented.
 +
  ...
 +
 
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This means the method <tt>AthstatsHelper::EnableAthstats</tt> has no documentation,
 +
and it's declared in <tt>src/wifi/helper/athstats-helper.h</tt> around line 49.
 +
 
 +
To see just the warnings from a single file (or a set of files matching a regular expression)
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use the <tt>-F <file-name-or-regex></tt> option: 
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  $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -s -F "block-ack.*"
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==== How to add documentation during the sprint ====
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Once you find the list of files and look at the possible errors to fix, feel free to join the chat and request to take a module or file and fix it, and we will list it on the [http://etherpad.osuosl.org/gMofL8fupm Etherpad] as being taken.  While all docs are valuable,
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we should probably focus on code in the model/ directories, then helpers/, examples/, and finally test/.
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To add doxygen documentation, please follow the [http://www.nsnam.org/docs/manual/html/documentation.html#id1 ns-3 Specifics] guidelines.
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Don't be surprised if you fix one warning and more appear!  If a struct, class or function
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has no documentation, doxygen reports a single "is not documented" error.  Once that object
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has documentation, then doxygen will examine it in detail and report additional warnings.
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For example, a function with no documentation will generate one warning.  Adding documentation
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''about the function itself'' will fix that warning, but then generate warnings for each of the
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function parameters and return value, until those are also documented.
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Unfortunately, it's not enough just ''write'' documentation; you also have to test it.
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(Documentation has bugs too!)  Just rerun the <tt>doxygen.warnings.report.sh</tt> script without the <tt>-s</tt> option:
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  $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -m <module> # or -F <file-name-or-regex>
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(BTW, without <tt>-s</tt> the script will always build all the doxygen;
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the <tt>-m</tt> and <tt>-F</tt> options only
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affect what it displays from the resulting <tt>doxygen.warnings.log</tt>)
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Once the script completes, load up the docs in your browser and check that it looks as you
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intended/you didn't mistype some doxygen syntax:
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  $ firefox doc/html/index.html &
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As in all code development:  wash, rinse, repeat, or, in this case:
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  $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -m <module>
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  [edit, edit, edit]
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  $ firefox doc/html/index.html &
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 +
==== How to contribute your docs ====
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Once you have fixed a file, you may create a patch such as follows:
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  $ hg diff file-you-have-fixed.h > file-you-have-fixed.h.patch
  
* Friday November 15, 14h00-20h00 UTC  ('''note:'''  attendees are welcome to attend a subset of the 6-hour slot, if so desired)
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and upload it to [https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=938 bug 938] or email it to one of the maintainers participating in the sprint (you can ask on IRC about it).
** '''Topic:'''  Documentation improvement.  https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=938.  In particular, we will work on reducing the number of doxygen warnings that are generated due to missing Doxygen.  This is a long-standing issue that just requires group effort to resolve.
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** '''Organizer:''' [mailto:tomhend@u.washington.edu Tom Henderson]
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** '''Preparation:'''
+
**# Read the general preparation below
+
**# Make sure you have Doxygen installed on your system, and can run the shell script 'doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh' (it may take a while to run, and should generate a lot of warnings)
+
**# Contact ns-3-users mailing list for help if you have trouble with the above
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** '''Tasks:'''  Fix as many of the doxygen warnings as we can.  The current count of warnings (by module) can be seen here:  http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-commits/2013-November/014304.html.  There is a full log generated that can be used to identify what is the error, and then it can be fixed with a text editor.  How this is planned to work is that contributors who show up will be assigned a file or set of files (that they are comfortable with documenting) and will try to clear the errors in that file, producing a patch that can be merged to ns-3-dev.
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**  '''Coordination:'''  We will use IRC and [http://etherpad.org Etherpad] to coordinate the work (make sure multiple people do not work on the same file).
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== General preparation ==
 
== General preparation ==
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* Familiarize yourself with how to [http://www.nsnam.org/developers/contributing-code/submit/ generate a patch] against ns-3-dev.  Patches you write can be uploaded to Bugzilla or sent to one of the maintainers.
 
* Familiarize yourself with how to [http://www.nsnam.org/developers/contributing-code/submit/ generate a patch] against ns-3-dev.  Patches you write can be uploaded to Bugzilla or sent to one of the maintainers.
  
== Once you're there ==
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==Once you're there ==
  
* Check in by letting others know that you've joined and are ready to contribute, and a maintainer will go from there
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* Check in on IRC by letting others know that you've joined and are ready to contribute, and a maintainer will go from there

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What is a sprint?

A sprint is a scheduled time for ns-3 contributors to gather and focus their undivided attention on improving the code, documentation, or tests.

Sprints are open to anyone, and have been organized on IRC, and if needed, other virtual meeting technologies (Slack, Zulip, Skype).

The Django project has a good reference and links to some presentations all about coding sprints.

A summary of the results of sprints will be shared with other developers on the ns-developers mailing list.

Results of past sprints

In the July 2019 IETF 105 hackathon sprint, we focused on updating a number of previously submitted L4S models.

In the March 2015 sprint, we were able to commit about half of the SetGroupName() methods across the codebase. Following the sprint, the remainder of the codebase was handled, so by the ns-3.23 release, this item was completed.

In the December 2014 sprint, we were able to get to zero warnings on the LTE helper directory, and also the mobility model and helper directories. December sprint warnings fixed (Peter, Piotr, Tom):

  • 176 src/mobility/model (all eliminated)
  • 39 src/mobility/helper (all eliminated)
  • 146 src/lte/helper (all eliminated)
  • reduced src/core warnings to below 500 count

In the October 2014 sprint, the following warnings were fixed (Budi, Tiago, Tommaso, Natale, Peter):

  • src/lte warnings count reduced by ~1500
  • src/mobility warnings count reduced by 20
  • all 160 propagation warnings eliminated
  • all 47 point-to-point warnings eliminated
  • all 55 internet warnings eliminated

Future sprints

None scheduled.

Past sprints

We had several past sprints; details from the last few are listed below. Details from older ones can be found in this wiki page history.

IETF 105 Hackathon, July 20, 2019

  • Topic: IETF L4S models for ns-3
  • Participating: Ankit Deepak, Tom Henderson, Vivek Jain, Viyom Mittal, Mohit Tahiliani

A document describing the goals and plan was provided at this link.

Friday March 27, 2015, 13h00-19h00 UTC

 ./waf --run "third --PrintHelp"
  Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
  Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
  'build' finished successfully (3.209s)
  ns3-dev-third-debug [Program Arguments] [General Arguments]

  Program Arguments:
    --nCsma:    Number of "extra" CSMA nodes/devices [3]
    --nWifi:    Number of wifi STA devices [3]
    --verbose:  Tell echo applications to log if true [true]

  General Arguments:
    --PrintGlobals:              Print the list of globals.
    --PrintGroups:               Print the list of groups.
    --PrintGroup=[group]:        Print all TypeIds of group.
    --PrintTypeIds:              Print all TypeIds.
    --PrintAttributes=[typeid]:  Print all attributes of typeid.
    --PrintHelp:                 Print this help message.
  

This command should also work;

 ./waf --run "third --PrintGroups"
  Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
  Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
  'build' finished successfully (3.231s)
  Registered TypeId groups:
    
    Mobility

We then want to be able to list all of the relevant TypeIds:

./waf --run "third --PrintGroup=Mobility"
Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
'build' finished successfully (3.202s)
TypeIds in group Mobility:
    ns3::GaussMarkovMobilityModel
    ns3::GridPositionAllocator
    ns3::RandomBoxPositionAllocator
    ns3::RandomDirection2dMobilityModel
    ns3::RandomDiscPositionAllocator
    ns3::RandomRectanglePositionAllocator
    ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel
    ns3::RandomWaypointMobilityModel
    ns3::SteadyStateRandomWaypointMobilityModel
    ns3::UniformDiscPositionAllocator
    ns3::WaypointMobilityModel

Then the attributes of a given class; this type of capability will be enabled across the codebase if we set the Group names consistently:

 ./waf --run "third --PrintAttributes=ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel"
Waf: Entering directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
Waf: Leaving directory `.../ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
'build' finished successfully (3.187s)
Attributes for TypeId ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel
    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Bounds=[0|100|0|100]
        Bounds of the area to cruise.
    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Direction=[ns3::UniformRandomVariable[Min=0.0|Max=6.283184]]
        A random variable used to pick the direction (radians).
    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Distance=[1]
        Change current direction and speed after moving for this distance.
    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Mode=[Distance]
        The mode indicates the condition used to change the current speed and direction
    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Speed=[ns3::UniformRandomVariable[Min=2.0|Max=4.0]]
        A random variable used to pick the speed (m/s).
    --ns3::RandomWalk2dMobilityModel::Time=[+1000000000.0ns]
        Change current direction and speed after moving for this delay.
  • Tasks: We will organize to group as many TypeIds as possible, across module lines. For instance, someone will be assigned the src/applications module, someone will be assigned the src/propagation model, and so on. When finished or having taken it as far as you can, submit a patch for the module.
  • Patches: We would like code to be sent in unified diff format. An easy way to do this is to use the 'hg diff' command, and redirect the output into a file (and submit the file). For instance, here is the output of 'hg diff' if one line of text is added:
hg diff
diff -r 6ea11eb86c17 src/applications/model/application-packet-probe.cc
--- a/src/applications/model/application-packet-probe.cc	Thu Mar 19 21:13:16 2015 +0100
+++ b/src/applications/model/application-packet-probe.cc	Mon Mar 23 15:44:33 2015 -0700
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 {
   static TypeId tid = TypeId ("ns3::ApplicationPacketProbe")
     .SetParent<Probe> ()
+    .SetGroupName ("Application")
     .AddConstructor<ApplicationPacketProbe> ()
     .AddTraceSource ( "Output",
                       "The packet plus its socket address that serve "

If you type

 hg diff > application.patch

you will store the above in a patch file, which can be submitted.

Please remember that an implementation file (.cc) may contain multiple TypeId declarations, so please search through each file.

  • Outcome: If successful, the PrintGroups command will have many groups defined (one for each module, perhaps more). The tutorial and manual will also be extended to describe how to use this feature.
  • Coordination: We will use IRC and Etherpad to coordinate the work (make sure multiple people do not work on the same file).

Friday December 12, 2014, 14h00-20h00 UTC

Fix as many of the doxygen warnings as we can. A current count of warnings (by module) can be seen here: http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-commits/2014-November/015994.html. There is a full log generated that can be used to identify what is the error, and then it can be fixed with a text editor. How this is planned to work is that contributors who show up will choose a file or set of files (that they are comfortable with documenting) and will try to clear the errors in that file, producing a patch that can be merged to ns-3-dev.
We may also work on reducing includes in ns-3.
  • Coordination: We will use IRC and Etherpad to coordinate the work (make sure multiple people do not work on the same file).


How to build Doxygen for ns-3 and find the errors

  • Use mercurial to check out the current copy of ns-3 (see the tutorial if you don't know how to do this):
  • You must also have Doxygen installed on your machine.

Once you have an ns-3-dev/ directory, take these steps:

   $ ./waf configure --enable-examples --enable-tests
   $ ./waf build

Then, run the script doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh from the ns-3-dev directory:

 $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -t -e

(Note: this excludes tests and examples; to include warnings for those files, rerun without the -t and -e options). This will produce lots of summary statistics like:

  Warnings by module/directory:
  Count Directory
  ----- ----------------------------------
  3390 src/lte/model
  1532 src/wimax/model
   575 src/core/model
   570 src/wifi/model
   488 src/mesh/model
   338 src/visualizer/visualizer
   229 src/netanim/model
   213 src/dsr/model
   ...
   ... 

Do not worry if the output scrolls beyond the buffer in your terminal window; the full warnings log is written to doc/doxygen.warnings.log.

Once this is complete, you can use the doxygen.warnings.report.sh script to focus on one module or file. To see just the errors from one module, for example wifi:

 $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -t -e -s -m wifi

The -s option skips the doxygen run, and just reports results from the existing warnings log. Obviously, if you want to see the results of your edits, you would omit the -s option so you could regenerate the warnings log. The -m <module> option only shows results from the ./src/<module> module; after printing the warnings counts by file, it shows the actual errors from each file:

 ...
 Filtered Warnings
 ========================================
 src/wifi/helper/athstats-helper.h:49: warning: Member EnableAthstats(std::string filename, uint32_t nodeid, 
 uint32_t deviceid) (function) of class ns3::AthstatsHelper is not documented.
 ...

This means the method AthstatsHelper::EnableAthstats has no documentation, and it's declared in src/wifi/helper/athstats-helper.h around line 49.

To see just the warnings from a single file (or a set of files matching a regular expression) use the -F <file-name-or-regex> option:

 $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -s -F "block-ack.*"

How to add documentation during the sprint

Once you find the list of files and look at the possible errors to fix, feel free to join the chat and request to take a module or file and fix it, and we will list it on the Etherpad as being taken. While all docs are valuable, we should probably focus on code in the model/ directories, then helpers/, examples/, and finally test/.

To add doxygen documentation, please follow the ns-3 Specifics guidelines.

Don't be surprised if you fix one warning and more appear! If a struct, class or function has no documentation, doxygen reports a single "is not documented" error. Once that object has documentation, then doxygen will examine it in detail and report additional warnings. For example, a function with no documentation will generate one warning. Adding documentation about the function itself will fix that warning, but then generate warnings for each of the function parameters and return value, until those are also documented.

Unfortunately, it's not enough just write documentation; you also have to test it. (Documentation has bugs too!) Just rerun the doxygen.warnings.report.sh script without the -s option:

 $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -m <module> # or -F <file-name-or-regex>

(BTW, without -s the script will always build all the doxygen; the -m and -F options only affect what it displays from the resulting doxygen.warnings.log)

Once the script completes, load up the docs in your browser and check that it looks as you intended/you didn't mistype some doxygen syntax:

 $ firefox doc/html/index.html &

As in all code development: wash, rinse, repeat, or, in this case:

 $ ./doc/doxygen.warnings.report.sh -m <module>
 [edit, edit, edit]
 $ firefox doc/html/index.html &

How to contribute your docs

Once you have fixed a file, you may create a patch such as follows:

 $ hg diff file-you-have-fixed.h > file-you-have-fixed.h.patch

and upload it to bug 938 or email it to one of the maintainers participating in the sprint (you can ask on IRC about it).

General preparation

  • Make sure that you can join the IRC channel in advance
  • Make sure you can checkout the development version of ns-3 (we will use ns-3-dev)
  • Familiarize yourself with how to generate a patch against ns-3-dev. Patches you write can be uploaded to Bugzilla or sent to one of the maintainers.

Once you're there

  • Check in on IRC by letting others know that you've joined and are ready to contribute, and a maintainer will go from there