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[astrofrog]

Just to check, are we happy with the name astrodendro?

Alternatives are for example dendrogram or dendrograms or dendro, with dendrogram.astro containing astronomy-specific routines and allowing people from other fields to contribute? Alternatively, we could even separate the astronomy-specific stuff to another repository, but then users have to install two packages, so not ideal.

[low-sky]

I think astrodendro is the right place to stay. Formally dendrogram and related titles refer to the graph itself and not the suite of analysis that we are doing with it. This is really a dendrogram representing a Reeb graph, whereas other dendrograms can represent other analysis results as well. The core functionality in the astrodendro is so closely linked to images that it would be misleading to generalize.

[astrofrog]

To play devil's advocate, we do want this to work on e.g. PPP cubes though, right? These are just arrays of density versus 3-d position, which could be used outside Astronomy in principle. I don't feel strongly about this, but just want to make sure that we're happy with the name.

The other issue I can foresee is that people already using @bradenmacdonald's fork might be confused by a package that has the same name but is different.

[astrofrog]

On the other hand, I do agree that the analysis tools we include are likely to be Astronomy-specific in the end, so I'm fine with the name.

[bradenmacdonald]

Hey guys, sorry I wasn't able to chime in on all these discussions over the last few days, but I'm glad to see so much progress :-)

I do like astrodendro as a name.

If you think it would be helpful, I can rename my fork or push a new version that just forwards people to dendro-core, to reduce confusion.

[astrofrog]

@ChrisBeaumont - do you also agree on keeping astrodendro? If so, then we have a consensus, and I'll close this.

[ChrisBeaumont]

Yes, I don't mind astrodendro

[astrofrog]

Ok, thanks!