Open cklunch opened 5 days ago
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header of the issue (located at the top of the issue template).Here my comments to clarify why I haven't ticked all the check-boxes.
docs
directory is present in the repo with an empty index.md
. I strongly recommend to add some documentation pages in order to structure the access to the information. There is no need to rewrite what is already on https://www.neonscience.org/, just linking and structuring, following for example the structure suggested in the pre-review checks. Also, it is not clear to me what is part of the Neon Data API and what is part of the python implementation.I think the fluidity of the review process will benefit from those improvements.
Thank you so much for your understanding!
hey there @cklunch @bhass-neon @znickerson8 👋🏻 it's nice to see you here on GitHub! I have a question for you about your contributing doc which says:
The neonutilities package is currently not accepting external contributions. If you have a suggestion for a fix or enhancement to the package, please create an Issue in this repository, or contact us using the NEON Contact Us page.
We do consider opening issues to report bugs and to request useful features to be contributions. They are a different type than a PR of course. What is the intent of "we are not accepting contributions" is in this case? We are having some discussions around our pyOpenSci policies, maintainer responsiveness to users and open source processes in general related to this package. Any input from you would be super helpful! thank you!!
Submitting Author: Claire Lunch (@cklunch) All current maintainers: (@cklunch, @bhass-neon, @znickerson8) Package Name: neonutilities One-Line Description of Package: neonutilities is a package for accessing and wrangling data generated and published by the National Ecological Observatory Network. Repository Link: https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-utilities-python Version submitted: v1.0.1 EiC: @cmarmo Editor: TBD
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The neonutilities Python package provides utilities for discovering, downloading, and working with data files published by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). NEON data files can be downloaded from the NEON Data Portal or API. The neonutilities package includes wrapper functions for the API and functions to reformat and stack NEON tabular data for analysis. This is a Python-native adaptation of the heavily used neonUtilities R package.
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The target audience is scientists doing research using NEON data. The package enables programmatic workflows for data downloading, and provides a standardized way to merge the product-site-month data files NEON publishes, making them analysis-ready.
There is an incomplete package on PyPi here that was started in 2020 by a student at a coding camp. It doesn't appear to have been finished, and is not maintained. Some NEON users have developed their own code to do some of the functionality covered by neonutilities, but as far as I know none of them have shared it broadly.
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