Request for Permission to Publish ALT-DSS Schema on PyPI

[AadilLatif]

Hi Paulo,

At NREL, we are currently working on model conversion and have been utilizing the Pydantic models from your repository (NREL-Distribution-Suites/alt-dss-schema). We are now at the stage where we need to package these changes and publish the package on PyPI to add it as a dependency in other projects we are developing.

Until now, we’ve been using the repository internally, but external users are beginning to require access to the package. With your permission, we’d like to proceed with publishing the package and will ensure proper attribution to your work in the repository.

Best regards,
Aadil

@KapilDuwadi

[PMeira]

Hi, Aadil (and @KapilDuwadi),

With your permission, we’d like to proceed with publishing the package and will ensure proper attribution to your work in the repository.

Thanks for asking! If you're close to a deadline, go ahead and publish a release on PyPI. If you don't mind adding me as a maintainer, we can cooperate on future releases and try to ensure compatibility.
If you still have some time, I could finally review the changes you guys proposed -- either a PR or a link to the specific branch should work, but of course feel free to drop me an email too.

There are upcoming changes that will affect the schema soon:

• As usual, there are a few new commands, settings, and components.
• There are some very recent changes related to the Line and LineGeometry components from the upstream OpenDSS. For example, empty conductors will be allowed, so we won't need to specialize LineGeometries/LineCodes for different number of phases. Thankfully we can reuse the Conductors property as I had proposed here and in AltDSS-Python, just need to allow using None/null for the items.
• The command system refactoring should be merged by February, with all commands described in the schema.

I don't know if these changes are enough for us to worry about supporting multiple schema versions ("2023-12-13", 2025-01-xx", 2025-02-xx", etc.) in the same package yet, but it's something to think about.

I already ported most of the code related to the changes, and I plan to resume working on testing the upcoming release of the engine and most packages this Monday. Only a few remaining issues to handle.

[AadilLatif]

Hi Pedro,

Thank you for the response. I will add you as a maintainer.

"If you still have some time, I could finally review the changes you guys proposed -- either a PR or a link to the specific branch should work, but of course feel free to drop me an email too."

That would be awesome. I will work on setting up a repository over the next week.

My colleague Tarek (tarek.elgindy@nrel.gov) worked on the changes. He is currently out of office. I will ask him to connect with you once he is back.