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We would always be very happy to hear of suggested new features. For every program there are already lists of features that we are planning to add. You can see the current list of plans from the Gnuastro project webpage at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuastro/ and following “Tasks”→“Browse” at the top of the page. If you want to request a feature to an existing program, click on the “Display Criteria” above the list and under “Category”, choose that particular program. Under “Category” you can also see the existing suggestions for new utilities or other cases like installation.
If the feature you want to suggest is not already listed in the task
manager, then inform us through the bug-gnuastro@gnu.org
mailing list or submitting an issue through the Gnuastro project
webpage, see Report a bug. Please have in mind that the
developers are all very busy with their own astronomical research, and
implementing existing “task”s to add or resolving bugs. Gnuastro is
a volunteer effort and none of the developers are paid for their hard
work. So, although we will try our best, please don’t not expect that
your suggested feature be immediately included (with the next release
of Gnuastro).
The best person to apply the feature is you, since you have the motivation and need. So you can read Developing and start applying your desired feature. Once you have added it, you can use it for your own work and if you feel you want others to benefit from your labour, you can request for it to become part of Gnuastro. You can then join the developers and start maintaining your own part (utility) of Gnuastro. If you choose to take this path of action please contact us before hand (Report a bug) so we can avoid possible duplicate activities and get interested people in contact.
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Gnuastro is a collection of low level programs: As described in Design philosophy, a founding principle of Gnuastro is that each program should be very basic and low-level. High level jobs should be done by running the separate programs in succession through a shell script, see the examples in Tutorials. So please consider how your desired job can best be broken into separate steps. |
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GNU Astronomy Utilities manual, November 2015.