To allow for developer contributions, a stand alone environment should be set up using a combination of environment.yml and requirements.txt such as:
# This file may be used to create an environment using:
# $ conda env create --name <env> --file <this file>
# platform: linux-64
name: astroxyz
channels:
- conda-forge
dependencies:
- python=3.7
- pip:
- -r file:requirements.txt