# PyGMT Community Calls 2022

## 2022-01-20 (UTC 20:00)

Youtube recording: https://youtu.be/iRtZifDiCxU

Participants (please add your name):

- Claus-Peter Rueckemann
- Wei Ji Leong
- Will Schlitzer
- Andre Belem
- Meghan Jones

Agenda:

1. PyOpenSci reviews
2. PyGMT Release v0.6.0 plans
3. EGU Session

### Discussion

- PyOpenSci reviews
- Place for people to review software, Python focused
- Two reviewers went through PyGMT docs, install, etc.
- Both reviews were positive
- Some comments are small
- Main issue is examples for each user-facing function
- Currently missing examples for data processing functions
- Overall feedback about GMT syntax
- Translating GMT examples to PyGMT - need to try to make it reproducible
- Need to reorder some of the unit test documentation sections so that they run properly for newcomers (main problem Simon had was not having ran `dvc pull`)
- Timing of addressing reviews relative to regular maintenance - can quickly address easy comments
- v0.6.0 release
- Not a ton of new features since the last version
- Try to get release by early March (no rush since EGU has been postponed)
- Discussion about which new features are in progress
- Everyone is working on wrapping some new GMT functions (grdhisteq, triangulate, etc)
- Andre thinking about having releases with notebooks showcasing how to do something (e.g. time series analysis)
- Blog posts might be helpful with workflows that use new features from releases
- E.g. https://towardsdatascience.com/easily-plot-earthquakes-data-on-top-of-the-topographic-map-in-a-few-steps-c165673035b4
- Need to get community input on pythonic syntax for GMT arguments (e.g., pen RFC)
- Need to review/finish bug fix with spaces
- Someone mentioned bug on gmtselect being limited to lines shorter than 4090 bytes
- Also legend crashes when >100 symbols are plotted using GMT 6.3 compared to GMT 5
- Plan for March 05, 2022 (Michael as release manager?)
- Track wrap GMT modules using project boards. Use GitHub issues to track some component of wrapping a GMT module
- EGU workshop planning
- Schedule conflicts - tell us about it
- Most of us will do this remotely, Leo said he might go in person
- Would be good to have tutorials for the remote sensing features if they are completed before May
- Tasks before May - complete content but most will be recycled
- Andre suggested using Mars data for the tutorials since that was a very popular topic at AGU including atmospheric Mars data
- AOB
- Will asked about new earth datasets - Meghan said should be due soon as most of the testing has been completed, probably next week-ish. Might break about 20-50 tests in PyGMT