The RASG organization github pages site.

pyuvdata: A pythonic interface for radio astronomy interferometry data (uvfits, miriad, others)

pyuvsim: A comprehensive simulation package for radio interferometers in python.

pyradiosky: Python objects and interfaces for representing diffuse, extended and compact astrophysical radio sources

pygitversion: Robust git-based versioning for your Python package

The RASG-Affiliates organization supports development of projects that are their way to meeting the standards of RASG. RASG-Affiliates is a different organization from RASG, and is meant to be a collection of scientific software generally useful to the field of Radio Astronomy. This particular organization encourages good software practices, including using unit tests and comments to provide high-quality software. Below we delineate what the loose requirements are for membership as a RASG-Affiliated repo versus a RASG core repo.

RASG-Affiliated Repos, in general, should have:

• Continuous integration (CI) set up to run tests & report coverage with badges on the README.
• A method for installing the repo using pip install . (even if the package is not on PyPI).
• A descriptive README.
• Code documentation, including but not limited to docstrings (we prefer the numpy docstring style, as described here).
• Meet pep8 code format standards (flake8 or pycodestyle can be used to enforce this).
• Permissive open source license (e.g., BSD or MIT, NOT a copyleft license such as the GPL). For some reading on the concerns around copyleft licenses see this, this and this.
• Signoff from the RASG managers. We will consider all of the above requirements and a plan for long-term support as criteria for support.

In contrast, RASG core repos represent a higher bar for support. In particular, the core RASG developers have agreed to maintain these repos and ensure a higher level of code quality and community engagement. Additional requirements for consideration as a RASG core repo are:

• Partnership with multiple RASG core developers and/or managers who commit to developing and maintaining the repo over the long term.
• Deep community support and development. It is often easiest to achieve this by developing code as a community from the beginning, but it can be met with revision based on deep community input.
• Better than 95% code coverage.
• A Code of Conduct and a Contributing guide.
• Meet all the above criteria for RASG-affiliates.

healvis: Visibility simulation of the sky on HEALPix maps.

simpleDS: Simple delay-space power spectrum estimator using proper cosmological normalization.

Contributors to the RASG Organization documents on these pages are subject to the Code of Conduct and Contributing Guide below. We encourage RASG-Affiliated repos to adopt their own Codes of Conduct and Contributing Guides. These documents in the pyuvdata repo (pyuvdata Code of Conduct and pyuvdata Contributing Guide) are good examples.

RASG Code of Conduct

RASG Contributing Guide

License