Proposed affiliated package: PetroFit (pyOpenSci/software-submission#159)

[robelgeda]

EDIT: Superseded by pyOpenSci/software-submission#159

PetroFit is a Python package designed for calculating Petrosian properties, such as radii and concentration indices, as well as fitting galaxy light profiles. In particular, PetroFit includes tools for performing accurate photometry, segmentations, Petrosian profiling, and Sérsic fitting. PetroFit is based on PhotUtils and AstroPy; and we hope to contribute the more generalized aspects of our code upstream for other packages make use of. For more information please visit the PetroFit repo or documentation.

cc @crawfordsm

[dhomeier]

Thank you for your submission and apologies for the long delay in responding to it!
As outlined below, we have been in the middle of migrating our Affiliated Package review process to a new system in partnership with pyOpenSci now described in APE 22, and experienced some unexpected delays in that transition.

What this means for all packages that have applied for Affiliated status before APE 22 was passed is, that we still offer you to continue the package review in the previous mode, but also want to give you the option (and encourage you) to apply through the pyOpenSci page instead.
Some key differences this would bring about are

• Double open review instead of single anonymous
• additional listing as a pyOpenSci package
• automatic submission for publication in JOSS
• review under the pyOpenSci guidelines in addition to Astropy-specific requirements such as integration into the Astropy ecosystem
• submission and review in the pyOpenSci submission space

Please comment here on your preferences, or if you need additional information on this process.
Thanks!

[robelgeda]

@dhomeie Thank you for reaching out, we are a go for the application and have submitted our review request here:
pyOpenSci/software-submission#159

Please let us know here if that request is okay or if we should take any additional steps.

[dhomeier]

Thank you for the renewed submission @robelgeda! I am confident this can proceed through the full submission stage right away from the initial review of your package. I hope to be able to proceed with the search for reviewers soon, once my editor position is confirmed on the pyOS side.