FEATURE: Hide or customize search categories on Astropy page

[pllim]

This is a follow-up of #207 . On https://www.pyopensci.org/communities/astropy.html , I see the following:

In the context of Astropy, I don't find them very useful, particularly "geospatial". I am also not very sure what "data munging" means though it does have hits when I click on it on that page. "reproducibility" seems redundant as that is one of the goals of Astropy project (and possibly OSS) in general.

Would be nice if Astropy is allowed to hide or customize these categories. Thanks for your consideration!

[lwasser]

@pllim i hear you. those categories are a part of our submission template, and we use them to broadly categorize the types of packages in our ecosystem. Maybe a good first move is for us to simply remove the categories and filtering from the partner page.

then, in another issue we can talk about what type of filtering astropy might prefer?
I had thought about filtering by health metrics previously - last commit date, downloads, stars. But we could have a discussion that is separate from - let's remove the filtering from the page for now.

there are only 3 packages so filtering isn't super powerful right now anyway!

let me know what you think!

[pllim]

I think hiding for now is fine but let's see what @dhomeier and @hamogu says. Thanks!

[pllim]

What about something like #521 ?

[hamogu]

Hiding is fine. We can think about filtering in any form once the number of packages goes > 20 or so.
I could image a filter by wavelength (radio, IR, optical, UV, High-energy). Of course many packages are broadly applicable, but we also have many that are somewhat instrument or wavelength specific.
However, the question then becomes how to tag that? Additional field in the YAML? Som other mechanism?

Either way, we can worry about that when we have enough packages to make up a representative sample to look at to decide what would be reasonable categories to use; for now, let's just hide it.

[pllim]

We do have like 50 packages that are already Affiliated in our pre-pyOpenSci days if those help us form categories, but I agree it is not urgent. Thanks!

[hamogu]

And I looked at those when I made my suggestion to mostly sort by waveband. Still, as the landscape of software changes, I don't know if we'll end up with a similar distribution in 2027 when we hit 50 astropy packages in PyopenSci.

[pllim]

landscape of software changes

Indeed it does. Maybe we will have to sort by "typed" and "not typed"... 🙈

[hamogu]

Indeed it does. Maybe we will have to sort by "typed" and "not typed"... 🙈

or "hyped" and "not hyped".

Or "AI with LLM" and "other software".