Maintaining astropy and affiliated packages

• How to create and maintain a Python package using the Astropy template
  • Releasing a Python package
• Workflow for Maintainers
  • Integrating changes via the web interface
  • Taking over a pull request
  • Fixing coding style issues
  • Using Milestones and Labels
  • Updating and Maintaining the Changelog
  • Stale Policies
• Managing Dependencies
  • Guidelines for defining requirements
  • Testing old versions of dependencies (oldestdeps)
  • Upgrading requirements
• Release procedure for the astropy core package
  • Start of a new release cycle - feature freeze and branching
  • Releasing the first feature release candidate
  • Releasing subsequent release candidates
  • Releasing the final version of the feature release
  • Maintaining Bug Fix Releases
  • Common procedures
• Astropy Testing Tools
  • Details
  • astropy.tests.helper Module
  • Astropy Test Runner