astropy
Return a link to the description of badges
This change is the result of discussions as the Astropy 2025 coordination meeting and between the current Astropy affiliated package editors.
On the one hand, we want to provide users a quick way to find high-quality, integrated packages that are useful for their projects; on the other hand, we recognize that users have different needs. Some need packages compatible with cutting-edge versions, other need stable packages that don't require updating, e.g. teaching materials with every new release of astropy or numpy. The text here tries to capture that in a few words as possible.
Suggestions for better wording are welcome.
They are already listed in the post-APE 22 section directly preceding this one, so should be pretty obvious. Though we could simply append a half-sentence "and have not undergone a new review under the PyOpenSci system yet" to "pre-dated APE 22".
The main addition coming out of our discussion was really a new label for all the packages we identify as still functional and useful, but unmaintained either in being explicitly archived, or having had no releases or relevant activity for a few years.
At least initially this could just be a new value of devstatus; we've been debating about placing them also into a separate section. That could be processed automatically analogously to the coordinated field, but I am afraid I am lacking the js or css or whatever skills to write this, so keeping this for later discussion.
Anyway the description should make clear that these packages have been evaluated as fully functional at one time, be we cannot guarantee for their installability or compatibility with recent Astropy versions any more.
