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Documents and policies regarding the Astropy Project as a whole.

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Indexed issues: 72

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License: CC-BY-4.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 24, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
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Request for AAS travel Open

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astropy/astropy-project#542 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Request for ADASS travel Open

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astropy/astropy-project#541 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
AI and Astropy: Pre-coordination meeting discussion Open

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astropy/astropy-project#540 · 78 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Astropy should endorse SPEC 0 Open

community :handshake:

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astropy/astropy-project#539 · 35 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Request for Astropy Coordination Meeting 2026 travel (SKAO, UK) Open

finance :moneybag: travel ✈️

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astropy/astropy-project#537 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
RTD: Coordinated docs as subprojects to core doc Open

infrastructure :package:

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astropy/astropy-project#536 · Opened May 12, 2026
Coordination Meeting 2026 Topics Open

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astropy/astropy-project#535 · 33 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Cycle 5: Moritz/MIT Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

astropy/astropy-project#534 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Cycle 5: Ginsburg/UFlorida Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

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astropy/astropy-project#533 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Request for funding: participation to SF2A 2026 Open

ROSES24🚀 travel ✈️

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astropy/astropy-project#532 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Link to the AI policy from various places Open

astropy/astropy-project#531 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Back up issue and PR discussions outside of GitHub Open

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astropy/astropy-project#529 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Cycle 5: Homeier core maintainer / Affiliated package editor (Homeier) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

astropy/astropy-project#528 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Cycle 5: ASDF serialization of Astropy objects (Dencheva) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

astropy/astropy-project#527 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Cycle 5: Workshops (Morris/STScI) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#525 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Cycle 5: Leadership (Aperio) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

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astropy/astropy-project#524 · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Cycle 5: Release team and OA (Aperio) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

astropy/astropy-project#523 · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Tracking Issue: Unified Astropy Sphinx Theme Migration Open

cycle 5️⃣ infrastructure :package: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

astropy/astropy-project#522 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 21, 2026
Cycle 5: Performance Benchmarking (Aperio) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

astropy/astropy-project#521 · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Cycle 5: Improving astropy vo and votable capabilities Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#520 · 1 comment · 3 assignees · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Cycle 5: Aperio Contract Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

astropy/astropy-project#519 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Cycle 5: Core/coordinated Package Maintenance (Aperio) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

astropy/astropy-project#518 · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Cycle 5: Specreduce Dev (Pickering) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#517 · 2 assignees · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Cycle 5: Astropy Finance and SPOC (Cruz/Hunter) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#516 · 3 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jan 11, 2026
Cycle 5: Array API in ccdproc and NDData and work on astrowidgets (Craig) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#515 · 4 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Cycle 5: Platform of stability (Robert) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#514 · 4 comments · 3 assignees · Opened Dec 22, 2025
Cycle 5: Specreduce development (Parviainen) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#513 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 22, 2025
Cycle 5: Packaging and maintenance of the Astropy ecosystem for Debian and Ubuntu (Streicher) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#512 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 22, 2025
Cycle 5: Quantities with Array API support (van Kerkwijk/UToronto) Open

cycle 5️⃣ finance :moneybag: ROSES24🚀

astropy/astropy-project#511 · 4 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Dec 22, 2025
Dedicated hack day to identify the top 5 issues that need attention Open

community :handshake: roadmap :world_map:

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astropy/astropy-project#475 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Identify “PR process” components that are preventing high-quality contributions Open

roadmap :world_map:

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astropy/astropy-project#474 · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Policy readme should have better TOC Open

policy :page_facing_up:

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astropy/astropy-project#464 · Opened Feb 10, 2025
New policy to remove roles Open

policy :page_facing_up: roles and staffing :briefcase:

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astropy/astropy-project#462 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2025
Update request funding document Open

finance :moneybag: policy :page_facing_up:

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astropy/astropy-project#459 · Opened Jan 27, 2025
Pathway from consumer to contributor Open

roadmap :world_map:

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astropy/astropy-project#448 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Pathway from contributor to maintainer Open

roadmap :world_map:

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astropy/astropy-project#445 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2024
Improve instructions for funded projects Open

finance :moneybag:

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astropy/astropy-project#442 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2024
New GitHub Team with triage access Open

policy :page_facing_up: roles and staffing :briefcase:

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astropy/astropy-project#441 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2024
Coordinated Packages also submit to PyOpenSci review as per APE 22 Open

policy :page_facing_up:

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astropy/astropy-project#437 · Opened Aug 10, 2024
How to handle AstroPy changes breaking affiliated package dependencies? Open

infrastructure :package: question :question:

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astropy/astropy-project#369 · 16 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2023
How to handle security reports Open

policy :page_facing_up:

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astropy/astropy-project#359 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2023
GH Teams Audit: Clean up repo access Open

infrastructure :package: roles and staffing :briefcase:

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astropy/astropy-project#358 · Opened Aug 16, 2023
PyPI organization: astropy Open

infrastructure :package: roles and staffing :briefcase:

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astropy/astropy-project#347 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 3, 2023
Generalizing user-facing spectral tools to be able to operate on a broader set of data Open

roadmap :world_map:

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astropy/astropy-project#339 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 3, 2023
Cycle 3 Funding: Brasseur | Learn Notebooks Open

cycle 3️⃣ finance :moneybag: funding-approved 💵 ROSES20🚀

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astropy/astropy-project#318 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 7, 2022
Gemini Contract Open

finance :moneybag:

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astropy/astropy-project#217 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2021
Update zenodo to be easy to use with astropy release procedures Open

infrastructure :package:

astropy/astropy-project#205 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 14, 2021
Reliable ways to quantify package usage (specifically core astropy) Open

infrastructure :package:

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astropy/astropy-project#188 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2021
Improvements to documentation on slack availability to new users/developers Open

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astropy/astropy-project#171 · 11 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2021
Need a plan to keep Astropy Coordinated Packages better maintained Open

roadmap :world_map:

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astropy/astropy-project#162 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2020

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