Astropy Team

Roles

The Astropy project is made possible through the efforts of community members that perform numerous important roles. This encompasses a broad scope of responsibilities ranging from direct package development to communication, distribution, and managerial activities. In this section we list the identified project roles and responsible parties, both to formally acknowledge those performing these duties and to solicit volunteers for these roles to ensure sustainability. See the Astropy project role responsibilities section below for a full description of each role.

Ideally each role has a lead and one or more deputies. The lead has primary responsibility for a role and will also identify and mentor deputies (as needed) in order to maintain continuous support. Some roles are currently unfilled and we invite community members with an interest to inquire about volunteering by emailing to coordinators@astropy.org.

Role	Sub-role	Lead	Deputy
Coordination committee member		Tom Aldcroft
		Kelle Cruz
		Tom Robitaille
		Erik Tollerud
Astropy.org web page maintainer		Erik Tollerud¹	Grant Tremblay
Astropy-helpers maintainer		Unfilled	Erik Tollerud, Brigitta Sipocz, Erik Bray
Astropy GSoC coordinator	2017	Tom Aldcroft	Erik Tollerud
CI-helpers maintainer		Brigitta Sipocz	Unfilled
Community engagement coordinator	Overall	Kelle Cruz	Unfilled
	Twitter	Adrian Price-Whelan	Tom Robitaille
	Facebook	Kelle Cruz	Tom Robitaille, Erik Tollerud
	Conferences	Adrian Price-Whelan	Erik Tollerud, Tom Robitaille, Kelle Cruz
Core package release coordinator		Brigitta Sipocz	Tom Robitaille, Erik Tollerud
Distribution coordinator	Conda	Matt Craig	Unfilled
	Debian	Ole Streicher	Unfilled
	Fedora	Sergio Pascual	Unfilled
	Gentoo	Sébastien Fabbro	Unfilled
	ArchLinux	Médéric Boquien	Miguel de Val-Borro, Stuart Mumford
	MacPorts	Christoph Deil	Moritz Guenther
Package-template maintainer		Tom Robitaille¹	Brigitta Sipocz, Larry Bradley, Adrian Price-Whelan
Sub-package maintainer	astropy.analytic_functions	Pey Lian Lim	Larry Bradley
	astropy.constants	Tom Aldcroft²	David Shupe, Ken Young
	astropy.convolution	Adam Ginsburg	Axel Donath, Larry Bradley
	astropy.coordinates	Erik Tollerud	Stuart Littlefair, Adrian Price-Whelan
	astropy.cosmology	Alex Conley	Neil Crighton
	astropy.io.ascii	Tom Aldcroft	Moritz Guenther
	astropy.io.fits	Unfilled	Simon Conseil, Michael Seifert, Erik Bray
	astropy.io.misc	Tom Robitaille¹	Matteo Bachetti
	astropy.io.votable	Unfilled	Pey-Lian Lim
	astropy.modeling	Nadia Dencheva	Pey-Lian Lim, Erik Bray
	astropy.nddata	Matt Craig	Steve Crawford, Michael Seifert
	astropy.stats	Steve Crawford	Alex Hagen, Larry Bradley
	astropy.table	Tom Aldcroft	Marten van Kerkwijk
	astropy.time	Tom Aldcroft	Marten van Kerkwijk
	astropy.units	Marten van Kerkwijk	Adrian Price-Whelan
	astropy.utils	Erik Tollerud¹	Brigitta Sipocz
	astropy.visualization	Larry Bradley	Tom Robitaille
	astropy.vo.conesearch	Pey Lian Lim	Unfilled
	astropy.vo.validator	Pey Lian Lim	Unfilled
	astropy.vo.samp	Tom Robitaille¹	Unfilled
	astropy.wcs	Unfilled	Nadia Dencheva
¹Would prefer deputy role
²Responsible primarily for process

Astropy Project Role Responsibilities

The Astropy project is made possible through the efforts of community members that perform numerous important roles. This encompasses a broad scope of responsibilities ranging from direct package development to communication, distribution, and managerial activities. In this section we list the responsibilities for each of the identified project roles. The list of people fulfilling these roles is found in the Roles section.

Coordination committee member (4 people)

Overall coordination and management of the Astropy project, including:

Keeping a large-scale view of the Astropy ecosystem
Evaluating new affiliated package submissions and review of existing affiliated packages
Approving or rejecting Astropy APEs
Evaluating and merging core package pull requests as needed (e.g., for sub-packages without a maintainer)
Arbitrating disagreements in the core package, including final decisions when otherwise deadlocked
Maintaining the list of roles and related github permissions
Managing finances for the project
Coordinating with NumFOCUS and other funding organizations
Securing funding for the project via discussions and proposals to funding agencies

Astropy.org web page maintainer

Manage the astropy.org web site, including:

Maintaining contributor/roles list
Managing pull requests to the website repository
Managing data.astropy.org, which is done by managing the astropy-data repository (which is automatically synced with data.astropy.org)

Astropy-helpers maintainer

Lead the development and maintenance of the astropy-helpers repository, including:

Managing issues/pull requests for the astropy-helpers repository
Assisting the core package release coordinator, including performing (or helping perform) the release process for astropy-helpers during core package releases
Performing any necessary incremental/bugfix releases between Astropy releases
Communicating to affiliated package maintainers the availability of new versions of astropy-helpers, and assist in updating in cases where changes are not trivial.

CI-helpers maintainer

Lead the maintenance of the ci-helpers, including:

Managing issues/pull requests in the ci-helpers repository
Responding in a timely fashion to breakages in CI caused e.g. by updates in conda, Travis, or AppVeyor, by including workarounds.
Advertise the ci-helpers beyond the astropy project and try to expand adoption

Community engagement coordinator

Facilitate engagement with the astropy community, including:

Maintain the @astropy twitter account
Monitor/moderate the Python Users in Astronomy Facebook group
Keep track of/help organize conferences and workshops

Core package release coordinator

Oversee the release process for the astropy core package, including:

Performing new releases
Coordinate releases of astropy-helpers with the astropy-helpers maintainer(s)
Maintaining the change log and “what’s new” documentation page
Maintaining the bugfix branches
Updating Astropy’s PyPI entry as needed
Working with the Community Engagement Coordinator to make release announcements via channels such as mailing lists and social media
Notifying the Distribution Coordinators of any release
Make sure that the package gets updated in conda and coordinate with distribution coordinators.
Keep documentation for release process up to date

Distribution coordinator (1 per distribution channel)

Create and maintain binary distribution packages for Astropy core and affiliated packages for a specific OS or package management system.

Package-template maintainer

Lead the development of maintenance of the affiliated package package-template, which is used by affiliated packages. This includes:

Managing issues/pull requests in the package-template repository
Keeping the affiliated package-template up-to-date with the astropy-helpers
Tag new releases from time to time, and keep the TEMPLATE_CHANGES up-to-date
Communicate any ‘releases’ with affiliated package maintainers via the astropy-affiliated-maintainers mailing list

Sub-package maintainer (1 per sub-package)

Maintain a sub-package of the astropy core package, including:

Evaluating new pull requests for quality, API consistency, Astropy coding standards, and appropriateness within the overall astropy ecosystem.
Merging Pull Requests in the sub-package
Keeping track of the “big picture” progress of the sub-package - includes new feature development and significant bugs.
Keeping track of frequent contributors to the sub-package and their relevant areas of expertise.

Contributors

Astropy project packages are under continuous development by professional astronomers and software developers from around the world. The Project is community-driven, with decisions generally made by consensus, but with oversight and organization provided by the coordinating committee.

Core Package Contributors

Ryan Abernathey
Shailesh Ahuja
Tom Aldcroft
Anthony Horton
JC Hsu
Anne Archibald
Cristian Ardelean
Matteo Bachetti
Steven Bamford
Kyle Barbary
Geert Barentsen
Pauline Barmby
Paul Barrett
Andreas Baumbach
Chris Beaumont
Daniel Bell
Elijah Bernstein-Cooper
Kristin Berry
Edward Betts
Mavani Bhautik
Francesco Biscani
Thompson Le Blanc
Christopher Bonnett
Joseph Jon Booker
Médéric Boquien
Azalee Bostroem
Matthew Bourque
Larry Bradley
Gustavo Bragança
Erik M. Bray
Eli Bressert
Hannes Breytenbach
Hugo Buddelmeijer
Doug Burke
Mihai Cara
Patti Carroll
Mabry Cervin
Pritish Chakraborty
Sourabh Cheedella
Alex Conley
Jean Connelly
Simon Conseil
Ryan Cooke
Yannick Copin
Matthew Craig
Steven Crawford
Neil Crighton
Robert Cross
Kelle Cruz
Dan P. Cunningham
Daniel Datsev
Matt Davis
James Dearman
Christoph Deil
Nadia Dencheva
Eric Depagne
Jörg Dietrich
Axel Donath
Bili Dong
Michael Droettboom
Zach Edwards
Jonathan Eisenhamer
Thomas Erben
Henry Ferguson
Leonardo Ferreira
Jonathan Foster
Ryan Fox
Lehman Garrison
Simon Gibbons
Adam Ginsburg
Christoph Gohlke
Danny Goldstein
J. Goutin
Perry Greenfield
Dylan Gregersen
Austen Groener
Frédéric Grollier
Karan Grover
Kevin Gullikson
Hans Moritz Günther
Chris Hanley
Alex Hagen
Christian Hettlage
Paul Hirst
Moataz Hisham
Michael Hoenig
Emma Hogan
Derek Homeier
Anthony Horton
Griffin Hosseinzadeh
Lingyi Hu
Jurien Huisman
Joe Hunkeler
Anchit Jain
Eric Jeschke
Graham Kanarek
Sarah Kendrew
Marten van Kerkwijk
Wolfgang Kerzendorf
Lennard Kiehl
Rashid Khan
Aleh Khvalko
David Kirkby
Dominik Klaes
Kacper Kowalik
Roban Hultman Kramer
Aniket Kulkarni
Amit Kumar
Arie Kurniawan
Arne de Laat
Antony Lee
Daniel Lenz
Kieran Leschinski
Simon Liedtke
Pey Lian Lim
Stuart Littlefair
Joseph Long
Joe Lyman
Jerry Ma
Duncan Macleod
Curtis McCully
Vinayak Mehta
Aaron Meisner
Serge Montagnac
José Sabater Montes
Francesco Montesano
Brett Morris
Michael Mueller
Stuart Mumford
Demitri Muna
Prasanth Nair
Stefan Nelson
Bogdan Nicula
Al Niessner
Joe Philip Ninan
Asra Nizami
Bryce Nordgren
Sigurd Næss
Sara Ogaz
Georgiana Ogrean
Miruna Oprescu
Carl Osterwisch
Luigi Paioro
Asish Panda
John Parejko
Madhura Parikh
Neil Parley
Sergio Pascual
Pratik Patel
Rohit Patil
David Pérez-Suárez
Ray Plante
Adele Plunkett
Orion Poplawski
Adrian Price-Whelan
J. Xavier Prochaska
Tanuj Rastogi
Thomas Robitaille
Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez
Evert Rol
Alex Rudy
Joseph Ryan
Eloy Salinas
Gerrit Schellenberger
Michael Seifert
Srikrishna Sekhar
Mathieu Servillat
David Shiga
Albert Y. Shih
David Shupe
Jonathan Sick
Max Silbiger
Sudheesh Singanamalla
Leo Singer
Brigitta Sipocz
Kevin Sooley
Shivan Sornarajah
Shantanu Srivastava
Ole Streicher
Matej Stuchlik
Bernardo Sulzbach
Vatsala Swaroop
Esteban Pardo Sánchez
James Taylor
Jeff Taylor
Kirill Tchernyshyov
Régis Terrier
Víctor Terrón
Scott Thomas
Erik Tollerud
Matthew Turk
James Turner
Miguel de Val-Borro
Jake VanderPlas
Alex de la Vega
Zé Vinicius
Karl Vyhmeister
Lisa Walter
Laura Watkins
Benjamin Alan Weaver
Jonathan Whitmore
Julien Woillez
Maneesh Yadav
Víctor Zabalza

Other Credits

Kaylea Nelson for designing this web site.
Kyle Barbary for designing the Astropy logos and documentation themes.
Andrew Pontzen and the pynbody team (For code that grew into astropy.units)
Everyone on astropy-dev and the astropy mailing list for contributing to many discussions and decisions!

If you have contributed to the Astropy project and your name is missing, please send an email to the coordinators, or open a pull request for the credits document in the astropy repository.