Merge branch 'develop' into docs/reviewing-docs-for-accuracy

.gitattributes

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
-* text=auto
+* text=auto eol=lf
 
 # Explicitly declare bash scripts to be set to LF
 *.sh text eol=lf
-*.txt text eol=lf
+*.txt text eol=lf
+*.py text eol=lf

start_kafka.sh

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 ./stop_kafka.sh
 
 # start kafka
-docker-compose -f docker-compose-kafka.yml up -d
+docker compose -f docker-compose-kafka.yml up -d

stop_kafka.sh

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # stop kafka
-docker-compose -f docker-compose-kafka.yml down --remove-orphans
+docker compose -f docker-compose-kafka.yml down --remove-orphans

test-scripts/standalone.sh

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 # This script sets up and runs a standalone test for a PPM container. The 
 # PPM is started in a Docker container using a specified image and waits for it to become
-# ready. The script takes in three input files: ROAD_FILE, CONFIG, TEST_DATA, and a type
-# argument (BSM or TIM). It checks if the input files exist and copies them to a test data
+# ready. The script takes in three input files: ROAD_FILE, CONFIG, & TEST_DATA. It checks if the input files exist and copies them to a test data
 # directory. If the OFFSET argument is provided, it is used as the offset in the topic that
 # will be consumed and displayed in the output. If not, the default value of 0 is used.