yt Enhancement Proposals

This is a repository of “yt Enhancement Proposals” (YTEPs). Because yt is relied upon for production-level science, large-scale design decisions are to be described and discussed before being acted upon. YTEP documents are set up to provide minimal overhead to discussion, while still allowing a clear and evolving specification.

YTEPs go through several stages in their lifetime:

  1. Initial writing of the YTEP
  2. Announcement and/or discussion on the yt-dev mailing list (may include implementation)
  3. Implementation and integration, or possibly declination (this includes pull requests)

YTEPs are useful for any code development that affects how others build tools or infrastructure, and necessary for breaking backwards compatibility. They are not necessary for most new developments or any bug fixes.

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