Project:Astronomy

Astronomy Project
Description	The Astronomy Project handles astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology related activities in Gentoo.
Project email	sci-astronomy@gentoo.org
Packages	p.g.o/sci-astronomy@gentoo.org
IRC channel	#gentoo-science (webchat)
Lead(s)	none No lead election date set
Member(s)	Andrew Savchenko (bircoph) General maintenance Benda Xu (heroxbd) Astronomy Data Processing, Dark Matter Jason Zaman (perfinion) General maintenance
Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s))	(none)
Parent Project	Science Project
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Resources

• Bugs for the Astronomy project.

We use the same overlay, and mailing list as the Science project. Take a look on how to contribute.

Working notes

Here is of popular astronomy software suites and packages we would like to see maintained in Gentoo. Contact us if you would like to work on them.

• IRAF: turn into non-interactive, create shared libraries, eclass for subpackages.
• ESO-MIDAS: turn into non-interactive, install data, and subpackages.
• Starlink: unbundle libraries, possibly package split.
• CASA: unbundle libraries (some of them already in Gentoo).

Recruitment

There are currently no staffing needs posted for this project.