astropy / astropy/specutils

Idea: create table of IRAF tasks to specutils functions

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Description

Several issue tracker issues have been phrased as "replacement for IRAF task X". Perhaps we should include this explicitly in the docs? I.e. a table that maps IRAF tasks to either `specutils` functions/classes, says "will be in `specreduce`", or "not a function, but here's s snippet for how to do it?"

Or is that going to be too hard to keep up?

cc @crawfordsm @nmearl @keflavich

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Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing specutils documentation and issue tracker for issues phrased as replacements for IRAF tasks. Define the table’s mapping categories and how entries would stay current; done means the documentation contains an IRAF-task mapping to specutils functions or classes, specreduce, or an example snippet.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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