Engineering management

Physics

Open source

Software package

Python (programming language)

Operating system

Optics

Software engineering

Engineering

Systems engineering

Core (optical fiber)

Data science

Software

Computer science

The Astrophysical Journal

The goal of the SunPy project is to facilitate and promote the use and development of community-led, free, and open source data analysis software for solar physics based on the scientific Python environment. The project achieves this goal by developing and maintaining the sunpy core package and supporting an ecosystem of affiliated packages. This paper describes the first official stable release (version 1.0) of the core package, as well as the project organization and infrastructure. This paper concludes with a discussion of the future of the SunPy project.

The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package