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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions CORE_TEAM_GUIDE.md
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Expand Up @@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ resources such as:
- [`pre-commit`](https://pre-commit.com) hooks for autoformatting.
- [`ruff`](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff) autoformatting and linting.
- [python-xarray](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python-xarray) on Stack Overflow.
- The Xarray channel in the [OSSci Zulip](https://ossci.zulipchat.com/)
- [@xarray_dev](https://x.com/xarray_dev) on X.
- [xarray-dev](https://discord.gg/bsSGdwBn) discord community (normally only used for remote synchronous chat during sprints).

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"header_links_before_dropdown": 8,
"navbar_align": "left",
"footer_center":["last-updated"],
"announcement": "Xarray has a home in the <a href='https://ossci.zulipchat.com/'>OSSci Zulip</a>! Chat here with other devs, users, and our friends at Zarr.", # TODO: Remove a couple months'ish after 21 March 2026
# Instead of adding these to the header bar they are linked in 'getting help' and 'contributing'
# "icon_links": [
# {
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Expand Up @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ All contributions, including bug reports, bug fixes, documentation improvements,
and other ideas are welcome.

If you have any questions on the process or how to fix something feel free to ask us!
The recommended place to ask a question is on `GitHub Discussions <https://github.com/pydata/xarray/discussions>`_
, but we also have a `Discord <https://discord.com/invite/wEKPCt4PDu>`_ and a
The recommended places to ask questions are `GitHub Discussions <https://github.com/pydata/xarray/discussions>`_
or the Xarray channel in the `OSSci Zulip <https://ossci.zulipchat.com/>`_. We also have a `Discord <https://discord.com/invite/wEKPCt4PDu>`_ and a

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whats teh deal with the discord these days? If we can avoid splitting communication channels it would be great.

Similar thought on how we are directing to github disucssions (whihc are good things!) would be nice to clarify what is for what. although to be clear as is this is good

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I was just about to post an issue about it to be discussed separately/didn't want it to get in the way of this PR. I think core devs might have opinions about the mailing list and Discord (which are both quite dead).

From my POV

  • promote Discussions and Zulip
  • link to mailing list/discord in a "in the past we've communicated via mailing list and discord" - in case people want to look up prior coms

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`mailing list <https://groups.google.com/g/xarray>`_. There is also a
`"python-xarray" tag on Stack Overflow <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python-xarray>`_ which we monitor for questions.

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