Release v0.1

[cdeil]

This is an issue where we can discuss the v0.1 release. For now it's scheduled for Wednesday, July 12, but we can do later if we're not ready by then.

I think the main thing missing is that tile drawing works for PNG / JPEG tiles.
@adl1995 - Can you make this a priority for the next days and try to get it to work (or explain how it fails and we'll try to help you make it work).

PS: just now I've asked for hips to be listed as an Astropy-affiliated package
astropy/astropy.github.com#171
and I'll add it to the list of packages mentioned at http://www.astropython.org/
to make it easier for users to find this package.

[cdeil]

Should appear at www.astropython.org/packages/hips after moderator approval.

[cdeil]

One more opportunity to promote the package and reason we should put a v0.1 with working color image (PNG / JPEG) drawing together ASAP: mwcraig/astropy-affiliated-numfocus-blog#8

:-)

[cdeil]

I'm planning to do the v0.1 release tomorrow, so that we have time today to land #70 and do some testing.

[cdeil]

We could release v0.1 now, or we could take another few days to fix #79 and implement some usability improvements (#80, #81, #82).

The problem with releasing now is that users will not have a great first experience with our package, and we know how to make it much better. So I'm leaning towards delaying again for a few days.

@adl1995 - Let's discuss this afternoon and see if it's realistic or not that we implement at least some of those four issues within the next days or not.

[cdeil]

I made the v0.1 release:

• Git tag: https://github.com/hipspy/hips/releases/tag/v0.1
• sdist on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hips/0.1

[cdeil]

This also worked: http://hips.readthedocs.io/en/v0.1/

This docs build is timing out:
http://readthedocs.org/projects/hips/builds/5755348/
I think in the future we might want to run the plot examples from the Sphinx docs independently and just store the PNG in the repo, to get a quicker docs build. But for now, let's just leave as-is, and instead work on improving the draw performance to make it faster.

[cdeil]

Note that I changed to a nicer color image example in the getting started:
http://hips.readthedocs.io/en/v0.1/plot_jpg.hires.png

It will fully update when the docs build works again and also browsers often cache old images.

[cdeil]

Release announcement on astropy-dev:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/astropy-dev/tLzhVbgyO6s

I made an entry here, so that people can find it also by searching on this website: http://www.astropython.org/packages/hips/

For v0.2, if it works much better, we could announce more widely, e.g. also on the general "Python for Astronomy" mailing list.