APE Overview

This page contains an overview of the Astropy proposals for enhancement (APEs).

The actual APEs are here: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs

This wiki page is manually updated, so please update it if you notice new APEs or incorrect status info.

APE List

• APE-1, "APE Purpose and Process", Perry Greenfield, Accepted, document, discussion
• APE-2, "Astropy Release Cycle and Version Numbering", Erik Tollerud, Accepted, document, discussion
• APE-3, "Configuration", Michael Droettboom, Accepted, document, discussion
• APE-4, "Astropy Setup Helpers", Erik M. Bray, Discussion, document, discussion
• APE-5, "Coordinates Subpackage Plan", Erik Tollerud et al., Accepted, document, discussion
• APE-6, "Data-table Text Interchange Format", Tom Aldcroft, Discussion, document, discussion

Astropy API proposals

We also have the Astropy API proposals: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-api/ . These are mostly historical (from before APEs), but may also store some API proposals that are associated with particular APEs (e.g., # 12 was part of APE5).

The numbers given are the GitHub issue numbers.

• #1, merged "Quantity class API", Adrian Price-Whelan
• #2, merged "Add quantity API", Adrian Price-Whelan
• #3, open "Adding plot API for discussion", Adrian Price-Whelan
• #4, merged "API Document for WCSAxes (v2)", Thomas Robitaille
• #5, open "Proposed Photometry API", Thomas Robitaille
• #6, open "Conversion from celestial to altaz coordinates", Marshall Perrin
• #7, merged "API Document for WCSAxes", Thomas Robitaille
• #8, open "adding ccdproc", Steve Crawford
• #9, open "added new model parameter API", Wolfgang Kerzendorf
• #10, open "Generalized WCS", Nadia Dencheva
• #11, open "Proposal to add an Angle format specifier to Angle.to_string()", Tom Aldcroft
• #12, merged "Coordinates API, take 2", Erik Tollerud