Scope of the Paper

The goal is to produce a brief and informative paper that covers major astropy principles not mentioned in the first paper, the core v2.0 package, and infrastructure in the astropy project to support development in python.

The draft of the paper can be found here.

Notes on writing

• We don't plan on including code in this paper, but if you think you will need to include code in your section, please add it to a separate python module (.py file) and include it in this repository.
• Use \sectionname not Section, \figurename not Figure
• Use \astropypkg for the astropy package, \astropy for the astropy project, \python not Python
• If your subpackage was included in Paper I, then please just include a note on what the package does, a reference to paper I, and any new major updates to your package
• If your subpackage was not included, then please describe the subpackage on level with what was in the first paper, and highlight any major features in it. Typical length should be equivalent to one page (single-column).

Journal

The paper will be submitted to the software section of the Astrophysical Journal.

Feedback

Comments on the paper are welcome as issues. Questions and comments can also be sent to crawfordsm@gmail.com.

Rules for Authorship

The form is still open, so if you are only seeing this now but do qualify, please sign up on the form

We would like 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 have contributed code to the core package
You have contributed to one of the following pieces of infrastructure:
    Astropy-helpers
    Package-template
    Ci-helpers
    Sphinx-automodapi
    astropy tutorial
    Website
You have contributed to one of the following ‘core’ affiliated packages (packages planned and developed by the Astropy core team for key functionality that may be merged into core in the future):
    Photutils
    Specutils
    Regions
    Reproject
    ccdproc

If you would like to be a co-author, please complete the 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 coordination committee has determine that 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. Final decisions about author order will be made by Kelle Cruz (on behalf of the Astropy Coordination Committee) and Steve Crawford (on behalf of the Paper II coordination committee).