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title: PyGMT Community Calls 2022
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# 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
