Nick Murphy

Update guidelines for "Raises" section of docstrings

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This PR updates the documentation guide by saying that the "Raises" section of a docstring should only include the exceptions raised by the function itself, and not exceptions that are...

Add sections to coding guide on imports and requirements

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This is another spinoff of #1305 that describes guidelines related to imports and requirements. When we are done with #1276, we should make sure to update the requirements section being...

Add sections on units & particles to coding guide

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This PR adds and updates sections on units and particles to the coding guide. It includes `validate_quantities` and `particle_input`. This was originally in #1305.

Discuss lite-functions and aliases in the coding guide

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This PR adds sections to the coding guide on lite functions and aliases. This is another excerpt from #1305.

Update release guide after 0.8.1 release

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I'm planning to update this while I'm working on the release to fill in any bits of it that I get confused about. This should not be merged until after...

Add `RelativisticBody` class to `plasmapy.formulary`

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Here's my first attempt at creating a `RelativisticBody` class, which I discussed more in #1539. Non-existent example notebook on ultra high energy cosmic rays, get ready to come into existence!...

Create a `Photon` class that can interact with `Particle` instances

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Another question that came up during the SULI summer school: is there a class for photons? There currently is not, though photons often interact with particles and so it is...

Describe workflow in contributor guide

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The goal of this PR is to add a page that describes the code contribution workflow to PlasmaPy using `git` and GitHub. It'll be based on content that we have...

In the documentation guide, it would be helpful to describe what the best practices are for the parameter type descriptions that go next to parameter names in docstrings. This would...

Once we have the ability to calculate the relativistic gyroradius (#1537), one possible notebook that we could add would be one which compared the gyroradii of solar energetic particles &...