Make a "package-template" repo for tutorials?

[Jerry-Ma]

I find the astropy package template repo helps a lot in the sense that it abstracts out most of the infrastructural work when setting up a new astronomy related package.

Is it possible to do the same for this repo? It'll make it much easier for anyone to setup a nice styled tutorial site with custom contents for more specific topics or their own astronomy related packages.

[adrn]

This is a great idea! We will discuss it at our next telecon and report back.

[adrn]

Hi @Jerry-Ma -- this is something we would be interested in supporting once we finish our ongoing overhaul of the astropy tutorials infrastructure (probably in the 3–5 month timescale). However, we are interested in hearing more about your use case. In particular, would you be interested in contributing any of your tutorials to this site, or do you want to build out your own tutorials site?

[Jerry-Ma]

Thanks a lot for the info.

We have been developing the data analysis suite for the TolTEC camera. The python packages there are set up using the astropy package template which works great. We recently started to put together a standalone tutorial site for using the python packages, and I thought it would be helpful to re-use the infrastructure here.

In the past week or so, I have copied this repo to manually setup the same machinery for our tutorial site, which has been smooth. Given your estimated timescale, it seems that this is the way to go for the moment.