How can one contribute?

[jfynbo]

Being unaware of the specreduce initiative Kasper Heintz and I started writing python code to replace IRAF code for reduction of long-slit spectra (https://github.com/keheintz/PyReduc). So far we have something that can do wavelength calibration and extraction of a 1-d spectrum similar to a small subset of what you can do with "identify" and "apall" in IRAF. What it is the status of specreduce? Where can one see what has been written already? How can we contribute?

[kakirastern]

Hi @jfynbo there will be a Spectroscopy Sprint starting tomorrow and will run between April 6th and 10th, 2020 (EDT), during which you may participate with code contributions to Astropy's specreduce package. More information can be inquired via the #spectroscopy-sprint-2020 channel of Astropy's Slack.

[jfynbo]

I am sorry to be a slow grandpa type. I am new both to slack and python. Anyway, I am now at the point where the stuff I have been working on can produce flux-calibrated 1d spectra for long-slit spectra. See here: https://github.com/keheintz/PyReduc/blob/master/README.md
If this can be used for specreduce that is fine!

[kakirastern]

@jfynbo No worries, thanks for the source code!