Our goal is to produce a brief and informative description of major updates about the Astropy Project, drawing on relevant changes or news since 2018 (the last paper).
The paper will be jointly submitted to the software section of the Astrophysical Journal and the Journal of Open Source Software.
Please feel free to reach out with comments or feedback by creating issues in this repository, or by messaging any of the Paper Coordinators:
- Adrian Price-Whelan
- Nicholas Earl
- Pey Lian Lim
If you are contributing text to the paper, please see the Contributing document.
We invite you to become a co-author if any of the following applies to you:
- You have an official role in the project, as defined on http://www.astropy.org/team.html
- You are a Voting Member, as listed on https://www.astropy.org/team.html#votingmembers
- You have contributed code to the core package
- You have contributed to Astropy Project infrastructure, including:
- Sphinx plugins (within the Astropy organization)
- Pytest plugins (within the Astropy organization)
- Astropy package template
- Astropy Website
- Learn Astropy
- You have contributed to one of the following Astropy coordinated packages (see http://affiliated.astropy.org/):
- astropy-healpix
- astroquery
- ccdproc
- photutils
- regions
- reproject
- specutils / specreduce
If you would like to be a co-author, please complete the Google form here. If the above does not apply to you but you feel that you should still be considered for co-authorship, please complete the form and your application will be reviewed.
The author order will be 'The Astropy Collaboration' as the first author, followed by people who have contributed significantly to the paper, in order of contribution level (or alphabetically where contribution levels are similar), and all other authors will then be listed alphabetically. A note will be included to indicate the author list and how it was determined.