Yao-Yuan Mao

We have stopped the automated rendition of tutorial notebooks for a while. We should look into restoring this service using https://github.com/LSSTDESC/beavis-ci. cc @heather999

`projecta` has be retired on NERSC. We need to update paths that contain `projecta` to the new CFS locations. Here's a list of all the `projecta` occurrences in this repo:...

Update CONTRIBUTING.md

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Updating CONTRIBUTING.md to match our current recommended practice.

automate integration tests that require NERSC resources

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Now that GCRCatalogs have real users (aka people not on the DESCQA team) and people have started to make plots with these catalogs, it is important to test the updates...

`intake` seems to be a pretty cool tool. Read the blog post here: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/intake-taking-the-pain-out-of-data-access We should explore the functionalities and features of [intake](https://intake.readthedocs.io/) (https://github.com/intake/intake) and evaluate its potential to act...

We can use a more thorough review of the current documentation (in particular, `README.md` on the front page), adding references to the public functions that we recently introduced in `GCRCatalogs.register`...

Establish a standardized catalog config specification and corresponding validation tests

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During the early development stage of `GCRCatalogs`, one of the guiding principles was to give as much flexibility as possible to the catalog providers, to lower the barrier for catalog...