Oliver Beckstein

Are these changes are backwards-compatible?

It sounds as if these changes get an entry under "Fixes" in the CHANGELOG. Then this PR can go in anytime after 2.0.0.

@alejob could you please review this PR? Thanks!

@PicoCentauri is this PR something you might want to come back to?

Note that this will fail until we install Cython 3.0.

We could `pip install 'Cython==3.0.0a6'` (worked for me) or something like that (and remove cython from the conda/mamba installation).

cython 3.0 is staying in alpha for quite a while...

@ojeda-e , I created a Zotero group for references for MDAnalysis papers https://www.zotero.org/groups/4747225/ — currently for work on the [MDAKits whitepaper](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/MDAKits/tree/main/paper/whitepaper) but could be generally useful for paper writing. Do...

We have been linting for a while. Can we close this issue?

Then we keep this issue open as a master issue and create new ones for individual linter warnings, similar to what we've been doing with testing of exceptions.