Cycle 5: Funding Request for Improving Integration of Documentation Across the project

[Cadair]

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[pllim]

Related:

• RTD: Coordinated docs as subprojects to core doc astropy#18367
• Common navigation in the website of scipy projects astropy#9277

While you are at it, should see if these would be automatically resolved as well:

• DOC: Section heading font sizes should be smaller in pydata-sphinx-theme astropy#15112
• DOC: Use Astropy orange in pydata-sphinx-theme astropy#15111

[eteq]

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[eteq]

The Cycle 5 funding request process has been hugely successful! On the downside, that means our funds are severely oversubscribed. Even after the Finance Committee and SPOC have taken into consideration community feedback/voting and alignment with the roadmap, there are still more funding requests than we can afford in 2026.

We would like to stretch the budget as far as possible, and to fund as many activities as possible, while making sure the Project remains volunteer-driven. Hence, we would like to know if this project will still meet its deliverables if minimum your budget is reduced by 25%, 50%, or 100%. Or if there’s some other minimum, feel free to specify that instead.

As a reminder, there will be more funding for 2027 and we expect the Cycle 6 call for 2027 funding requests to begin in the Fall of 2026.

Thank you for your engagement and understanding as we continue to optimize our funding and budgeting processes and the balance of volunteer vs funded work! (@Cadair )

[Cadair]

I could probably get the majority of the work done in 30h, but might end up cutting corners on the website migration and getting all the affiliated packages migrated. The website is the most problematic part of this project as without it the whole thing kinda falls apart.

I've given myself more budget on top of that to deal with community feedback and review. Website design is something which is easy to pick holes in (I do it all the time). If people are willing to accept something which is good enough it will take less time. (This is especially true for the astropy.org home page, as it's critical to the end goal and I don't know who will be reviewing the changes).

[eteq]

We are pleased to let you know that this proposal will be funded at the level of $4500. The Astropy community supports this work and the SPOC finds it to be well-aligned with the roadmap. While we would ideally fund this work in full, given over-subscription and budget limitations, this proposal will be funded at less than the maximum budget request. With the amount allocated, we ask that you focus your funded work to address the roadmap items listed in the request. If the amount allocated is insufficient to make any progress on the roadmap items, please let us know.

Additionally, assuming a successful and timely budget process with NASA, we are anticipating more funds to be available at some point in 2026. Once this is final, the SPOC and Finance Committee will review project progress and spending to date and evaluate the possibility of modifying budgets mid year. At that time we may be able to allocate more funding to this project.

We will follow-up with more details on how to start working on this in the near future. In addition, individualized feedback will be forthcoming.