Merge pull request #192 from bsipocz/astroquery_community

Funding 2021: astroquery community building and infrastructure refactoring

Author: jdswinbank

finance/proposal-calls/2021-proposal/bsipocz_astroquery.md

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+Astroquery community manager and infrastructure refactoring
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+### Project team
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+This proposal is fund new community initiatives for astroquery as well as the long overdue restructuring of the package, and continued maintainer involvement of: 
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+* Brigitta Sipőcz
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+### Project Summary
+
+* The proposal has 3 main components two of which are new directions:
+    * Establishing community calls, and organize workshop
+    * Refactoring packaging, fixing versioning and continuous deployment, and restructuring the structure of modules
+    * Continue maintenance work, focusing on reviewing large PRs from archival contributors
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+
+### Project / work
+
+#### 
+* Community management 
+    * New: Organize community calls. Contributors expressed large interest for these type of calls, and indeed pilot calls were well received and were very productive.
+    * Organize and participate and astroquery workshop. Such workshop generated large interest, but hasn't materialized due to lock down.
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+* Infrastructure refactoring and maintanance. Some critical issues:
+    * APE17 has to be implemented
+    * New versioning scheme is required for CD
+    * CD infrastructure has to be fixed
+    * Package module structure is agreed to be refactored to ensure better user experience with ever growing number of modules
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+* Continue as maintainer with special focus on 
+    * reviews of big PRs
+    * oversee CD/CI, perform manual releases, coordinate with packagers
+    * communicate with external development teams
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+Note: the last bulletin, maintenance overlaps with the other astroquery funding proposal, and if preferred this proposal can be split into to make my share of the work included in that one rather then here.
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+
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+### Budget
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+The participant will work 4h/week on this project. Assuming 48 weeks  gives a total of **USD
+28800** with an hourly rate of USD 150/hour.