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Add reference field for affiliated registry

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by locating how affiliated packages are represented and displayed in the Astropy web pages. Add a preferred citation reference field and show it where users look up an affiliated package; done means users can identify what to cite.

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Description

affiliated-packages Feature Request

It would be great to have a field for the preferred reference for the affiliated packages so it's easier for users to figure out what to cite.

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
107
Avg merge
1d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
5

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