ligo-followup-advocate

LIGO Follow-up Advocate Tools

This package provides tools for LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA follow-up advocates to assist in tasks such as drafting astronomical bulletins for gravitational-wave detections.

To install

The easiest way to install ligo-followup-advocate, is with pip:

pip install --user ligo-followup-advocate

To upgrade

Once you have installed the package, to check for and install updates, run the following command:

pip install --user --upgrade ligo-followup-advocate

Current templates

If you wish to just see examples of the current templates or submit these to be reviewed in P&P, you can find them here.

Example

ligo-followup-advocate provides a single command to draft a GCN Circular skeleton. Pass it the authors and the GraceDB ID as follows:

ligo-followup-advocate compose \
    'A. Einstein (IAS)' 'S. Hawking (Cambridge)' \
    'I. Newton (Cambridge)' 'Data (Starfleet)' \
    'S190407w'

Optionally, you can have the program open the draft in your default mail client by passing it the --mailto option.

For a list of other supported commands, run:

ligo-followup-advocate --help

For further options for composing circulars, run:

ligo-followup-advocate compose --help

You can also invoke most functions directly from a Python interpreter, like this:

>>> from ligo import followup_advocate
>>> text = followup_advocate.compose('S190407w')

To develop

To participate in development, clone the git repository:

git clone [e-mail]:emfollow/ligo-followup-advocate.git

To release

The project is set up so that releases are automatically uploaded to PyPI whenever a tag is created. Use the following steps to issue a release. In the example below, we are assuming that the current version is 0.0.5, and that we are releasing version 0.0.6.

1. Check the latest pipeline status to make sure that the master branch builds without any errors.

2. Make sure that all significant changes since the last release are documented in CHANGES.md.

3. Update the heading for the current release in CHANGES.md from 0.0.6 (unreleased) to 0.0.6 (YYYY-MM-DD) where YYYY-MM-DD is today's date. Also update the version in pyproject.toml similarly.

4. Update the PDF templates with this new version.

5. Commit those changes:

   git commit -m "Update changelog for version 0.0.6"
   

6. Tag the release:

   git tag v0.0.6 -m "Version 0.0.6"
   

7. Add a new section to CHANGES.md like this:

   ## 0.0.7 (unreleased)
   
   - No changes yet.
   

8. Commit the changes:

   git commit -m "Back to development"
   

9. Push everything to GitLab:

    git push --tags
    git push -f
   

   Within a few minutes, the new package will be built and uploaded to PyPI.

10. Create an SCCB ticket. Note that there is an option to do this via the a button in the CI/CD pipeline, but this template could be outdated. The recommendation is to create the ticket by hand via the above link.