Minutes of SunPy Board Meeting 20141017

Date of Meeting

17th October 2014

Agenda

• Appointment of interim SunPy lead developer.
• Vote on Coordinates SEP (https://github.com/PritishC/sunpy-SEP/blob/MySEP/SEP-0005.md).
• Vote on Affiliated Packages SEP (https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy-SEP/pull/14)
• Vote on Unified Downloader and Lightcurve factory SEP (https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy-SEP/pull/6)

Attendance

Present: Steven Christe (Chair), David Perez-Suarez (Vice-chair), Andrew Inglis (Secretary), Albert Shih, Stuart Mumford, Russel Hewett, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Jack Ireland

Absent: Thomas Robitaille

Meeting Notes

• Discussion about appointing a new Lead Developer. We need to appoint an interim lead developer, as Stuart is stepping down. Steven argues that the main purpose of the position is to be responsible for the SunPy code base, and that it is important that the position is occupied at all times.

  • Albert is nominated as interim Lead Developer.
  • Vote on Albert as interim Lead Developer. 7-1 in favour.

• Discussion on the Affiliated packages SEP.

  • Affiliation is a formal mechanism of including projects managed by others in the SunPy Community, for example instrument software pipelines. Agreed that this SEP should only outline the fundamental concept of Affiliated Packages, not all the details.
  • Vote proceeds. 8-0 in favour.

• Albert and Juan left the meeting.

• Vote on the Coordinates SEP. 6-0 in favour.

• Discussion on the Unified Downloader SEP.

  • Decided to hold a vote by email at a later date on this SEP (decided by 5-0 vote)

Meeting concludes.