[AstroPy] Interest in developing

[Thomas Robitaille]

Hi Trey,

Great that you are interested in contributing to Astropy! I would
recommend joining the developer mailing list:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/astropy-dev

rather than this more general list, as you will then be able to follow
our current development discussions.

There's certainly a lot of work available to do, so your offer to help
is very welcome! We've created a generic 'contributing' page that has
some useful links:

  http://astropy.org/contribute

In practice if you want to contribute actual code, then I would
suggest either starting with small issues on the Astropy issue
tracker:

  https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues?labels=&milestone=&page=1&state=open

(but many of the easy ones are being claimed by google summer of
code/GSoC applicants). Or, since you are interested in spectroscopy,
you might be interested in helping out with the specutils affiliated
package:

  https://github.com/astropy/specutils

You could email Wolfgang Kerzendorf, the maintainer of that package
(cc-ed) to ask if you can help there. As a side note, it might be
easier to determine where you can make the most impact in a couple of
weeks once the GSoC projects have been assigned, but in the mean time
you can always work on any open astropy (or affiliated package) issue!

Cheers,
Tom



On 6 March 2014 16:02, Trey Wenger <tvw2pu at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Trey and I am currently a graduate student at the University of
> Virginia. I'm an avid Python programmer and have been using Astropy since
> it's earliest stages. I've been subscribed to this list for some time and
> finally decided it was time to introduce myself. I am interested in radio
> astronomy and spectroscopy, specifically single dish radio astronomy. I
> would enjoy helping with the development of Astropy if you think there is
> anything I could do!
>
> Cheers,
> Trey
>
> --
> Trey V. Wenger
> Department of Astronomy
> University of Virginia
> http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~tvw2pu/
>
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