Modernising radiospectra

Understanding the Infrastructure 🔧 The past two weeks have been quite different from the start of the coding period. Instead of spending most of my time implementing new functionality, I found myself exploring a part of open source development that I had very little experience with before: testing infrastructure, CI workflows and release tooling. One thing I've learned so far is that writing code is only part of maintaining a project. Making sure that code continues to work months or years later is an equally important challenge. Bringing Figure Tests to Radiospectra 📊 The main focus of the last two weeks was introducing the initial figure testing infrastructure to radiospectra. Before this, I had never worked with figure tests. My understanding of testing was mostly limited to checking outputs and functionality. Testing plots turned out to be a completely different world. To understand how it worked, I spent time exploring the figure testing workflow used across the SunPy e...

The Journey Begins 💪 The first two weeks of the coding period have been a mixture of excitement, confusion, debugging, learning and the occasional moment of staring at a terminal wondering why something that worked five minutes ago suddenly doesn't. As someone once said: "The expert in anything was once a beginner who refused to give up." That quote has felt surprisingly relevant over the past couple of weeks. Building the Foundation with NDCube 💻 A major part of my work focused on integrating radiospectra with NDCube. This involved migrating the core GenericSpectrogram  class, understanding how coordinate-aware data is represented and diving deeper into World Coordinate Systems (WCS) than I ever expected. At first glance it sounded simple: "just integrate NDCube." It was not. Along the way, I had to understand how time and frequency coordinates interact, how plotting components work and spend a fair amount of time convincing Git that my branches and commits w...