Project:Astronomy

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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)
  • Benda Xu (heroxbd)
    Astronomy Data Processing, Dark Matter
  • Jason Zaman (perfinion)
    General maintenance
Subproject(s)
(and inherited member(s))
(none)
Parent Project Science Project
Project listing

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.