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).