roles.json

[
    {
        "role": "Coordination committee member",
        "url": "Coordination_committee_member",
        "people": [
            "Clara Brasseur",
            "Derek Homeier",
            "Pey Lian Lim",
            "Aarya Patil",
            "Erik Tollerud"
        ],
        "role-head": "Coordination committee member",
        "responsibilities": [
            {
                "description": "Overall coordination and management of the Astropy project, including:",
                "details": [
		            "Formally detailed in the <a href='https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/main/APE0.rst#the-coordination-committee'>The Astropy Project Governance Charter (APE 0)</a>",
                  "Keeping a large-scale view of the Astropy ecosystem",
                  "Approving or rejecting Astropy APEs",
                  "Evaluating and merging core package pull requests as needed (e.g., for sub-packages without a maintainer)",
                   "Arbitrating disagreements in the core package, including final decisions when otherwise deadlocked",
                   "Maintaining the list of roles and related github permissions",
                   "Managing finances for the project",
                   "Coordinating with NumFOCUS and other funding organizations",
                   "Securing funding for the project via discussions and proposals to funding agencies"
                 ]
            },
            {
                "description": "Organization and communication:",
                "details": [
                    "Policies: <a href='https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/tree/main/policies/coco-operating-policies.md'>CoCo Operating Policies</a>.",
                    "Meeting records: <a href='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0d7uKCUC9V1nMeGEZ0byHBNyeYxCbmmSDu-QZJXP_M'>CoCo Running Notes</a>.",
                    "Communication within the coordination committee happens through regular Zoom meetings and a private Slack channel.",
                    "Contact the Coordination Committee via email to <a href='mailto:coordinators@astropy.org'>coordinators@astropy.org</a> or by tagging the <a href='https://github.com/orgs/astropy/teams/coordinators'>github team @astropy/coordinators</a>.",
                    "Coordination committee members send project updates to appropriate email lists (e.g. <a href='https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/astropy-dev'>astropy-dev</a>)."
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "role": "Ombudsperson",
        "url": "Ombudsperson",
        "people": [
            "Perry Greenfield"
        ],
        "role-head": "Ombudsperson",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Provide a point of contact for sensitive issues separate from the coordinating committee, including:",
            "details": [
		"Formally detailed in the <a href='https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/main/APE0.rst#the-ombudsperson'>The Astropy Project Governance Charter (APE 0)</a>",
                "Monitoring the <a href='mailto:confidential@astropy.org'>confidential@astropy.org</a> email account",
                "Solicit and provide anonymized feedback to the astropy coordination committee regarding coordination of the project",
                "Assist the coordination committee and community engagement coordinator with violations of the code of conduct or other ethical concerns"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Strategic planning committee member",
        "url": "strategic_planner",
        "people": [
            "All Coordination Committee Members"
        ],
        "role-head": "Strategic planner",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Do long-term planning for the Astropy Project as a whole, including:",
            "details": [
                "Shape and provide a vision for next major steps in the Project, in consultation with the whole Astropy community.",
                "Maintain an overview of all the project activities (both from developer and user perspectives).",
                "Provide points of contact for external stakeholders on the above (with the Coordination Committee).",
                "Monitor project activities to see how well aligned they are with the roadmap and strategic goals of the project, and report back to the community and Coordination Committee.",
                "Coordinate writing grant proposals (in collaboration with the Finance Committee, Coordination Committee, and community).",
                "Maintain the Astropy Project Roadmap.",
                "Engage with, and collect input from, the whole Astropy Community on project vision and priorities."
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Finance committee member",
        "url": "finance_committee_member",
        "people": [
            "Kelle Cruz",
            "Aarya Patil",
            "John Swinbank",
            "Erik Tollerud"
        ],
        "role-head": "Finance committee member",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Plan, oversee, and disburse the Astropy project finances, including:",
            "details": [
                "Determine and manage the process for paying people from Astropy's project-level funding.",
                "Paying and overseeing people in supporting roles (e.g., documentation copy-editors, contract lawyers).",
                "Oversee payment for services, licenses, and travel (e.g., Python in Astro, SciPy), and other miscellaneous expenses the project already pays for.",
                "Maintain and continuously develop a transparent process for reporting all of the above to the Coordination Committee and wider community, related record keeping, and planning the same for future possible financial committee efforts."
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Maintainer Mentorship coordinator",
        "url": "mentorship",
        "people": [
            "Tom Aldcroft"
        ],
        "role-head": "Maintainer Mentorship coordinator",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Lead the maintainer mentorship program, including:",
            "details": [
                "identifying active and experienced contributors that would like to become maintainers",
                "finding mentors for new maintainers",
                "develop opportunities for new maintainers"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Community engagement coordinator",
        "url": "Community_engagement_coordinator",
        "role-head": "Community engagement coordinator",
        "sub-roles": [
            {
                "role": "Overall",
                "people": [
                    "Unfilled"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "Facebook",
                "people": [
                    "Kelle Cruz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "Slack/Matrix",
                "people": [
                    "Stuart Mumford"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "Discourse",
                "people": [
                    "Stuart Mumford"
                ]
            },            
            {
                "role": "Conferences",
                "people": [
                    "Kelle Cruz",
                    "Erik Tollerud"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "BlueSky",
                "people": [
                    "Brett Morris"
                ]
            },            
            {
                "role": "Mastodon",
                "people": [
                    "Stuart Mumford"
                ]
            }
        ],
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Facilitate engagement with the Astropy community, including:",
            "details": [
                "Maintain Astropy's social media accounts",
                "Monitor/moderate the Python Users in Astronomy Facebook group",
                "Keep track of/help organize presence in conferences and workshops",
	  	"Maintain infrastructure for communication channels (e.g., Discourse)"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Learn Team",
        "url": "Learn_team",
	"role-head": "Learn Team",
	"sub-roles": [
	    {
		"role": "Coordinators",
		"people": [
		    "Clara Brasseur"
		]
	    },
        {
		"role": "Learn content and infrastructure",
		"people": [
            "Lia Corrales",
            "Kelle Cruz",
            "Matt Craig",
		    "Adrian Price-Whelan",
		    "Erik Tollerud",
		    "Jonathan Sick",
            "Jeff Jennings"
		]
	    },
	    {
		"role": "Workshop Coordinators",
		"people": [
		    "David Shupe",
		    "Brett Morris",
		    "Kelle Cruz"
		]
	    }
	],
        "responsibilities": [
            {
		"subrole-head": "Coordinators",
		"description": "Oversee the Astropy \"Learn\" ecosystem, including:",
		"details": [
                    "Ensuring that the documentation, tutorials, and guide materials are internally consistent and cover key areas of the ecosystem",
                    "Overseeing the maintainers for the aforementioned areas",
                    "Organizing sprints or other events focused on Astropy learning materials"
		]
	    },
	    {
                "subrole-head": "Learn content and infrastructure",
                "description": "Maintain the infrastructure and edit content of the <a href='https://www.astropy.org/astropy-tutorials/'>Tutorials website</a>, including:",
                "details": [
                    "Facilitating the display and discoverability of the tutorials",
                    "Rendering of the Jupyter notebooks",
                    "Integrated testing of notebooks",
                    "Reviewing issues and pull requests",
                    "Soliciting new content as needed"
                ]
            },
	    {
		"subrole-head": "Workshop Coordinators",
		"description": "Organize and coordinate Astropy workshops for training and outreach to users",
		"details": [
                    "Maintain the astropy-workshops repository",
                    "Oversee staffing/volunteers for workshops",
                    "Identify opportunities for workshops in diverse geographic locations"
		]
	    }
	]
    },
    {
        "role": "Affiliated package review editor",
        "url": "Affiliated_package_review_editor",
        "people": ["Hans Moritz G\u00fcnther", "Derek Homeier"],
        "deputy": ["Unfilled"],
        "role-head": "Affiliated package review editor",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Oversee affiliated packages in partnership with <a href='https://www.pyopensci.org/software-peer-review/partners/scientific-communities.html'>pyOpenSci</a>, including:",
            "details": [
                "Representing Astropy as pyOpenSci Software Review Editor",
                "Keeping track of submissions to the affiliated package ecosystem",
                "Guiding submissions through the pre-submission and submission steps to the <a href='https://www.pyopensci.org/software-peer-review/how-to/author-guide.html#submit-your-package-for-peer-review'>Peer Review system</a>"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Release team",
        "url": "release_team",
        "people": [
            "Simon Conseil",
            "Thomas Robitaille"
        ],
        "role-head": "Release team",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Oversee the release process for packages in the project, including:",
            "details": [
                "Carrying out releases of the core astropy package",
                "Notifying the Distribution Coordinators of any core astropy package release",
                "Working with the Community Engagement Coordinator to make release announcements via channels such as mailing lists and social media",
                "Keeping documentation for the release process of the core package up to date",
                "Designing policies to improve the uniformity of release procedures for the coordinated and infrastructure packages of the Astropy Project",
                "Testing the interoperability of the core, coordinated, and infrastructure packages and provide safeguards against breaking the ecosystem."
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Security team",
        "url": "security_team",
        "people": [
            "Hans Moritz G\u00fcnther",
            "Pey Lian Lim",
            "Thomas Robitaille",
            "Erik Tollerud"
        ],
        "role-head": "Security team",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Organize security reporting and auditing for packages in the project, including:",
            "details": [
                "Monitor and reply to security reports (this role needs admin privileges on GitHub to access reports submitted through GitHub's secure reporting form)",
                "Coordinate the response to any security report with the relevant package maintainers and outside security experts",
                "Coordinate security audits with external experts as needed and available",
                "Release CVEs as necessary"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Infrastructure and Operations",
        "url": "devops_team",
        "role-head": "Infrastructure and Operations",
        "sub-roles": [
            {
                "role": "Technical Lead",
                "people": [
                    "Pey Lian Lim",
                    "Brigitta Sip\u0151cz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "Testing infrastructure",
                "people": [
                    "Simon Conseil",
                    "Pey Lian Lim",
                    "Thomas Robitaille",
                    "Brigitta Sip\u0151cz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "Documentation infrastructure",
                "people": [
                    "Simon Conseil",
                    "Pey Lian Lim",
                    "Thomas Robitaille",
                    "Brigitta Sip\u0151cz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "Astropy.org web page maintainer",
                "people": [
                    "Hans Moritz G\u00fcnther",
                    "Derek Homeier",
                    "Erik Tollerud"
                ]
            }

        ],        
        "responsibilities": [
            {
                "subrole-head": "Technical Lead",
                "description": "Ensure the smooth running of the project",
                "details": [
                    "Set up and maintain continuous integration services",
                    "Move issues between repositories within the organization"
                ]
            },
            {
                "subrole-head": "Testing infrastructure",
                "description": "Lead development and maintenance of the testing infrastructure for Astropy and the helpers, including:",
                "details": [
                    "Managing issues/pull request for the Astropy core package regarding testing infrastructure",
                    "Managing issues/pull requests in the repositories containing the testing plugins, and determining when new plugins are required",
                    "Maintaining the 'metapackage' with the testing machinery (pytest-astropy at the time of this writing)",
                    "Supporting and enabling affiliated package usage of the testing infrastructure"
                ]
            },
            {
                "subrole-head": "Documentation infrastructure",
                "description": "Maintain the <a href='https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/index.html'>Astropy documentation</a> website, including:",
                "details": [
                    "Managing the Sphinx infrastructure",
                    "Implementing changes and improvements to the documentation website",
                    "Overseeing content (although primary responsibility for content lies with subpackage maintainers)"
                ]
            },
            {
                "subrole-head": "Astropy.org web page maintainer",
                "description": "Manage the <a href='https://astropy.org'>astropy.org</a> web site, including:",
                "details": [
                    "Managing pull requests to the website repository in general",
                    "Managing <a href='http://data.astropy.org'>data.astropy.org</a>, which is done by managing the astropy-data repository (which is automatically synced with <a href='http://data.astropy.org'>data.astropy.org</a>)",
                    "Managing the astropy.org DNS entries and related domain name upkeep"
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "role": "Core astropy package maintainer",
        "url": "Subpackage_maintainer",
        "role-head": "Sub-package maintainer (at least one per core package sub-package)",
        "sub-roles": [
            {
                "role": "General",
                "people": [
                    "Derek Homeier",
                    "Pey Lian Lim",
                    "Cl\u00e9ment Robert",
                    "Ole Streicher"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.constants",
                "people": [
                    "David Shupe",
                    "Marten van Kerkwijk"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.convolution",
                "people": [
                    "Larry Bradley",
                    "Axel Donath",
                    "Adam Ginsburg"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.coordinates",
                "people": [
                    "Stuart Littlefair",
                    "Adrian Price-Whelan",
                    "Eero Vaher",
                    "Marten van Kerkwijk"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.cosmology",
                "people": [
                    "Nathaniel Starkman"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.io.ascii",
                "people": [
                    "Tom Aldcroft",
                    "Hans Moritz G\u00fcnther",
                    "Derek Homeier"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.io.fits",
                "people": [
                    "Simon Conseil",
                    "Thomas Robitaille"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.io.misc",
                "people": [
                    "Matteo Bachetti"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.io.votable",
                "people": [
                    "Thomas Boch",
                    "Tom Donaldson",
                    "Pey Lian Lim"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.modeling",
                "people": [
                    "Nadia Dencheva",
                    "Perry Greenfield",
                    "William Jamieson"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.nddata",
                "people": [
                    "Matt Craig",
		    "Brett Morris"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.samp",
                "people": [
                    "Unfilled"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.stats",
                "people": [
                    "Larry Bradley"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.table",
                "people": [
                    "Tom Aldcroft",
                    "Marten van Kerkwijk"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.time",
                "people": [
                    "Tom Aldcroft",
                    "Marten van Kerkwijk"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.timeseries",
                "people": [
                    "Thomas Robitaille",
                    "Brigitta Sip\u0151cz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.uncertainties",
                "people": [
                    "Erik Tollerud",
                    "Marten van Kerkwijk"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.units",
                "people": [
                    "Nathaniel Starkman",
                    "Marten van Kerkwijk"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.utils",
                "people": [
                    "Pey Lian Lim",
                    "Brigitta Sip\u0151cz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.visualization",
                "people": [
                    "Larry Bradley",
                    "Stuart Mumford",
                    "Thomas Robitaille"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy.wcs",
                "people": [
                    "Mihai Cara, Nadia Dencheva"
                ]
            }
        ],
        "responsibilities": [
            {
                "subrole-head": "General maintainer",
                "description": "Maintain the astropy core package in aspects that are not specific to a single sub-package, including:",
                "details": [
                    "Evaluating new pull requests for quality, API consistency, Astropy coding standards, and appropriateness within the overall astropy ecosystem, in particular for pull requests spanning multiple sub-packages",
                    "Merging Pull Requests that are non-controversial or after reaching out to relevant subpackage maintainers",
                    "Maintain, review, and advocate for useful interaction between multiple sub-packages",
                    "Perform initial triaging of issues and pull requests",
                    "Keeping track of frequent contributors and their relevant areas of expertise"
                ]
            },
            {

                "subrole-head": "Sub-package maintainer",
                "description": "Maintain a sub-package of the astropy core package, including:",
                "details": [
                    "Evaluating new pull requests for quality, API consistency, Astropy coding standards, and appropriateness within the overall astropy ecosystem",
                    "Merging Pull Requests in the sub-package",
                    "Keeping track of the \u201cbig picture\u201d progress of the sub-package - includes new feature development and significant bugs",
                    "Perform initial triaging of issues and pull requests",
                    "Keeping track of frequent contributors to the sub-package and their relevant areas of expertise"
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "role": "Coordinated package maintainer",
        "url": "Coordinated_package_maintainer",
        "role-head": "Astropy coordinated package maintainer",
        "sub-roles": [
            {
                "role": "astroquery",
                "people": [
                    "Clara Brasseur",
                    "Adam Ginsburg",
                    "Brigitta Sip\u0151cz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "astropy-healpix",
                "people": [
                    "Thomas Robitaille",
                    "Leo Singer"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "photutils",
                "people": [
                    "Larry Bradley"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "ccdproc",
                "people": [
                    "Matt Craig"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "specutils",
                "people": [
                    "Adam Ginsburg",
                    "Ricky O'Steen",
                    "Erik Tollerud"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "reproject",
                "people": [
                    "Stuart Mumford",
                    "Thomas Robitaille",
                    "Sam Van Kooten"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "regions",
                "people": [
                    "Larry Bradley",
                    "Adam Ginsburg"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "asdf-astropy",
                "people": [
                    "Nadia Dencheva",
                    "Perry Greenfield",
                    "Brett Graham"
                ]
            },
            {
                "role": "specreduce",
                "people": [
                    "Tim Pickering",
                    "Erik Tollerud",
                    "Kyle Conroy",
                    "Clare Shanahan",
                    "Hannu Parviainen"
                ]
            }
        ],
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Maintain an astropy coordinated package, including:",
            "details": [
                "Maintaining the github repository for the coordinated package",
                "Maintaining the coordinated package's infrastructure (usually via the helpers and package template)",
                "Monitoring features and bringing them for inclusion in the core package when relevant",
                "All the same responsilities as a sub-package, but for the coordinated package."
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Dev-telecon coordinator",
        "url": "devtelecon_coordinator",
        "people": [
            "Hans Moritz G\u00fcnther"
        ],
        "role-head": "Developer telecon coordinators",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Organize monthly developer telecons",
            "details": []
        }
    },
    {
        "role": "Distribution coordinator",
        "url": "Distribution_coordinator",
        "people": [
            "Matt Craig",
            "Stuart Mumford",
            "Sergio Pascual",
            "Ole Streicher",
            "Miguel de Val-Borro"
        ],
        "role-head": "Distribution coordinators",
        "responsibilities": {
            "description": "Create and maintain binary distribution packages for Astropy core and affiliated packages for a specific OS or package management system.",
            "details": []
        }
    }
]