Contributing and Developing Guidelines¶

This section explains how to contribute to the project code base and collaborate on GitHub platform. Please use the section navigator to left to visit pages for specific details on areas of development.

Terminology¶

These below is the terminology used to identify pipeline objects.

• Pipeline run (or "Run") -> Pipeline run instance, also referred as run, p_run, piperun, pipe_run, ... in the code
• Measurement -> the extracted measurement from the source finder of a single astrophysical source from an image, referred in the code as measurement(s), meas, ...
• Source -> A collection of single measurements for the same astrophysical source, referred as src, source, ... in the code

Docstrings¶

All docstrings must be done using the Google format to ensure compatibility with the documentation.