Review and update this package template

[sosey]

@pllim it's been a while since we updated this repo, I'm not sure of the status for its recommended use and advertising.

do you have any recent useful information on its use?

[pllim]

Why don't we just use https://github.com/OpenAstronomy/packaging-guide ?

Even astropy is planning on that: https://github.com/astropy/package-template#pending-deprecation-warning

[pllim]

@eteq might have strong opinions too. We disagreed on astropy/astropy.github.com#523

[sosey]

yah, I just saw #24 as well

[sosey]

see also spacetelescope/style-guides#122

[zacharyburnett]

@pllim now that https://github.com/spacetelescope/ins-jwst-community-software is updated, would you mind reviewing these three PRs when you have time?

• update and improve GitHub Actions workflows #33
• fix RTD config #32
• move build configuration from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml #30

Thanks!

[pllim]

I don't really maintain this template anymore. I still think we don't have to roll our own template. There are so many templates out there already, e.g., OpenAstronomy, pyOpenSci, Scientific Python, and so on.

[zacharyburnett]

That's a good point. There are a bunch of existing references and links to this repo in documentation and standards repos, so I can go through those and remove them, if we don't want to use this anymore (I'm not sure anyone has recently).

[pllim]

Since @sosey is the INS Chief Engineer and she opened this issue, maybe she can chime in.