Developer’s Guide

This section contains the various guidelines to be followed by anyone working on sunpy.

Getting started

• Newcomers’ Guide
  • How to Contribute to sunpy
    • Not Code
    • Code
• Pull Request Check List

Conventions

• Coding Standards
• Testing Guidelines
• SunPy Documentation Rules
• Example Gallery
• Pull Requests and GitHub Teams
• Use of quantities and units

Repo management

• Workflow for Maintainers
• Dependency Support Policy
• What runs on our Continuous Integration
• Making Changes to Released Versions
• Submodule and funding

Extending sunpy

• sunpy’s Public API
• Extending Fido with New Sources of Data
• Logging, Warnings, and Exceptions
• Creating new sunpy Subclasses (Maps, TimeSeries)
• Remote Data Manager
• Adding a new rotation method