The Astropy Problem

Demitri Muna , Michael Alexander , Alice Allen , Richard Ashley , Daniel Asmus , Ruyman Azzollini , Michele Bannister , Rachael Beaton

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Andrew Benson G. Bruce Berriman Maciej Bilicki Peter Boyce Joanna Bridge Jan Cami Eryn Cangi Xian Chen Nicholas Christiny Christopher Clark Michelle Collins Johan Comparat Neil Cook Darren Croton Isak Delberth Davids \'Eric Depagne John Donor Leonardo A. dos Santos Stephanie Douglas Alan Du Meredith Durbin Dawn Erb Daniel Faes J. G. Fern\'andez-Trincado Anthony Foley Sotiria Fotopoulou S{\o}ren Frimann Peter Frinchaboy Rafael Garcia-Dias Artur Gawryszczak Elizabeth George Sebastian Gonzalez Karl Gordon Nicholas Gorgone Catherine Gosmeyer Katie Grasha Perry Greenfield Rebekka Grellmann James Guillochon Mark Gurwell Marcel Haas Alex Hagen Daryl Haggard Tim Haines Patrick Hall Wojciech Hellwing Edmund Christian Herenz Samuel Hinton Renee Hlozek John Hoffman Derek Holman Benne Willem Holwerda Anthony Horton Cameron Hummels Daniel Jacobs Jens Juel Jensen David Jones Arna Karick Luke Kelley Matthew Kenworthy Ben Kitchener Dominik Klaes Saul Kohn Piotr Konorski Coleman Krawczyk Kyler Kuehn Teet Kuutma Michael T. Lam Richard Lane Jochen Liske Diego Lopez-Camara Katherine Mack Sam Mangham Qingqing Mao David J. E. Marsh Cecilia Mateu Lo\"ic Maurin James McCormac Ivelina Momcheva Hektor Monteiro Michael Mueller Roberto Munoz Rohan Naidu Nicholas Nelson Christian Nitschelm Chris North Juan Nunez-Iglesias Sara Ogaz Russell Owen John Parejko Vera Patr\'icio Joshua Pepper Marshall Perrin Timothy Pickering Jennifer Piscionere Richard Pogge Radek Poleski Alkistis Pourtsidou Adrian M. Price-Whelan Meredith L. Rawls Shaun Read Glen Rees Hanno Rein Thomas Rice Signe Riemer-S{\o}rensen Naum Rusomarov Sebastian F. Sanchez Miguel Santander-Garc\'ia Gal Sarid William Schoenell Aleks Scholz Robert L. Schuhmann William Schuster Peter Scicluna Marja Seidel Lijing Shao Pranav Sharma Aleksandar Shulevski David Shupe Crist\'obal Sif\'on Brooke Simmons Manodeep Sinha Ian Skillen Bjoern Soergel Thomas Spriggs Sundar Srinivasan Abigail Stevens Ole Streicher Eric Suchyta Joshua Tan O. Grace Telford Romain Thomas Chiara Tonini Grant Tremblay Sarah Tuttle Tanya Urrutia Sam Vaughan Miguel Verdugo Alexander Wagner Josh Walawender Andrew Wetzel Kyle Willett Peter K. G. Williams Guang Yang Guangtun Zhu Andrea Zonca

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keywords astropyprojectsoftwareastronomicalastronomybeencommunityeffort

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The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Python astronomy packages." For five years this project has been managed, written, and operated as a grassroots, self-organized, almost entirely volunteer effort while the software is used by the majority of the astronomical community. Despite this, the project has always been and remains to this day effectively unfunded. Further, contributors receive little or no formal recognition for creating and supporting what is now critical software. This paper explores the problem in detail, outlines possible solutions to correct this, and presents a few suggestions on how to address the sustainability of general purpose astronomical software.

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