Development Guidelines

• Style Guide
  • Coding Style
  • API Documentation Style
  • Interactive Development Environment
• Code Guidelines
  • References for good coding practices
  • Checking for Logistic Errors
  • Unit-tests
  • Data Structures
  • Logging and debugging
  • Function or method Input/Output
  • Unit Quantities
  • Writing Algorithms
• Support Libraries
  • Math/Stats
  • Multivariate Analysis and Machine Learning
  • Astronomical Calculations
  • Tabular Data Processing
    • low-level FITS Table Access
    • low-level HDF5 Table Access
  • Model Fitting
  • Graphics and Plotting
  • Parallelization and Speed-ups
    • Use NumPy operations
    • Use Numba
    • Use C/C++ code and wrap it
• Making and Accepting Pull Requests
  • Making a Pull Request
  • Keep in mind
  • Accepting a Pull Request
• Maintainer info
  • Python / numpy versions to support
  • How to update the online docs?
  • How to make a release?
• For ROOT users