Roadmap

Release 0.5 (June 2014)

Summary of this release: This release will continue integration with Astropy. Major refactor for light curve and addition of observation-based map classes.

• 70%+ Test coverage
• Functions should accept astropy quantities
• LightCurve Refactor, downloading function should be removed
• First cut at SunPy Gallery implemented

Release 0.6

• 80%+ Test coverage
• Include high quality solar ephemeris library
• Re-factor of WCS into an object-oriented approach. For example, define an observer object which gives distance from Sun, heliographic longitude and latitude, etc.
• Refactor plotting functions outside of core datatypes
• database should integrate with light curve data
• Integrate Astropy time object into parse_time() and the Time Range object
• Convert to numpy standard for accessing data in image arrays (see link)
• Create observation Map classes
• Integrate astropy coordinates

Release 0.7

• Full support for Python 3.x

Release 0.8

Release 0.9

Release 1.0

• Have a generalised coordinate system representation shared by all data types, i.e. Astropy Generalised WCS or HyperMap coordinate system.
• Complete integration of all core data types, i.e. slice a Map to get a Lightcurve
• Complete integration with Astropy, i.e. All code supports units, and a generalised coordinate system.