chakravala / chakravala/Geophysics.jl

Is the name of this package appropriate?

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Continuing a discussion in the announcement post https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097 :

> Isn’t the name of this package overly general and could even miss-lead a newcomer? I’d say Geophysics is a really large branch of the geosciences, but this package seems to focus specifically on providing values of pressure, temperature and other variables of the atmosphere at a given height. Wouldn’t a more fitting name be something like Atmospheres.jl or AtmosphericVariables.jl?

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Start with the linked Discourse announcement and the package description to understand the current atmospheric scope and the naming concern. No repository file or test is identified; done would require a maintainer decision on whether the package name accurately reflects its scope, followed by any agreed rename work.

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julia
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data
Issue type
Refactor
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Over a week
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Stale
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Needs clarification
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