The Project¶
The SunPy project (also known as the SunPy organization) was founded and defined by this document. Its primary goal is to facilitate and promote the use and development of a community-led, free and open-source solar data-analysis software based on the scientific Python environment.
The organization of a board of directors, a lead developer appointed by the board, community roles and the sunpy and affiliated package developers. Anyone is welcome to participate in the SunPy organization. The purpose of the board is to lead the overall structure and direction of SunPy while the lead developer works with the developer community to implement it.
Members of the development community are too numerous to list here but a list of anyone who contributed code to SunPy is available on Github contributors and for each major release we keep track of who contributed in-between releases.
SunPy Board¶

Steven Christe

David Pérez-Suárez

Monica Bobra

Russell Hewett

Jack Ireland

Kevin Reardon

Sabrina Savage

Stuart Mumford

Tiago Pereira

Bin Chen
Community Roles¶
Lead Developer

Stuart Mumford
Deputy Lead Developer

Will Barnes
Communication and Education Lead

Sophie Murray
Summer of Code Administrator

David Pérez-Suárez
Maintainer List¶
The following section list the maintainers for the various sub-packages of the core library as well as the documentation maintainers. Each area should have at least one but preferably two people identified. To enable mentorship the two maintainers could include a lead and a deputy or also two co-leads. Some roles are currently not filled. We’d like to encourage members of the community to inquire about volunteering.
Responsibilities of sub-package maintainers include
Evaluating and soliciting new pull requests which are consistent with the sub-package scope and contribution standards.
Providing material support for open pull requests to enable merging.
Maintaining and developing the sub-package roadmap consistent with the roadmap of the overall core package.
Mentoring the next generation of maintainers and developers.
Responsibilities of documentation maintainers include
Overseeing and improving content
Soliciting and implementing improvements and new additions to the content.
Maintaining and improving the documentation infrastructure.
Sub-package |
Name(s) |
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sunpy.cm |
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sunpy.coordinates |
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sunpy.database |
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sunpy.image |
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sunpy.instr |
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sunpy.io |
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sunpy.map |
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sunpy.net |
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sunpy.physics |
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sunpy.roi |
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sunpy.sun |
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sunpy.time |
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sunpy.timeseries |
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sunpy.visualization |
Documentation Section |
Name(s) |
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documentation/developer |
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documentation/user |
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documentation/gallery |
Affiliated Packages¶
An affiliated package is a Python package related to Solar Physics that is not part of the SunPy core library, but can be included in the future as part of the SunPy project’s community.
As a community-driven project SunPy thus encourages contributions from a diverse group of people on building such software that has the potential to be a future Affiliated SunPy Package.
Requirements to be satisfied:
The package must make use of all appropriate features in the core SunPy library, to reduce code duplication and complexity.
The software must provide documentation that explains the function and use of the package, and this documentation should be of comparable standard to the core SunPy library.
The code should as far as possible provide an easy to run test suite to verify the correct operation of the package.
The developers of an affiliated package should engage with the rest of the SunPy community to encourage knowledge and code sharing within the community.
Please look at this SEP to read about our policies surrounding affiliated packages. Please send an email to the mailing list to start a dialogue.
Package Name |
Description |
Documentation |
Maintainer |
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A base package for multi-dimensional (non)contiguous coordinate-aware arrays |
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Access HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python |
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This package aims to provide support for some type of radiospectra on solar physics |
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A package for handling data from the IRIS satellite |