SSINS Change Log

Unreleased

Added handling for negative sig_thresh such that when set, the associated shape will only trigger on a negative sig smaller than sig_thresh. Behavior for positive sig_thresh is unchanged; this will continue to use the absolute value of sig. Setting a negative sig_thresh for the narrow shape is not supported and will trigger a warning.
Now requires pyuvdata 2.4.1, which introduces several new required parameters for UVData (thus SS) and UVFlag (thus INS). This required refactoring the INS constructor, though the API has been preserved. However, if reading SSINS h5 files written with an earlier pyuvdata version, there may be an error issued from pyuvdata about the new required keywords. In this case, one will need to specify the originating telescope of the file, or disable run_check to proceed.
Changed how _data_params property is handled.

Requires pyuvdata 2.2.8 or greater, which changes the astropy dependency. Since this version of pyuvdata uses a version of astropy that no longer supports python 3.7, we have also dropped that from our CI. However, python 3.10 has been added to the CI.
Make unit tests use tmp_path pytest fixtures, which makes running them much cleaner
notable api change Got rid of old matplotlib functionality that was deprecated. Must now supply a string for the cmap argument in all the plotting code, which is the name of the colormap you would like to use, rather than the actual colormap object.
Update diff unit test to be more flexible with pyuvdata antenna_number conventions
Call SS.apply_flags at end of SS.diff so that object is always ready to pass to INS after diff
Fixed xscale kwarg passing bug in plotting code
Updated MWA_EoR_High_uvfits_write and then moved it to the EoRImaging/pipeline_scripts repo
Change version handling to use setuptools_scm.
Update Run_HERA_SSINS.py to take auto_metrics and ant_metrics files to calculate a set of xants, which will be excluded from the data when flagging.

Replaced is with == when comparing to string literals
Added write_meta util function for easy metadata writing.
Added match_filter writeout to yaml format.
Added extent options to plotting libraries so that default ticks on plots would be sensible and easy.
Added inplace keyword to select
Added extend and alpha keyword for image_plot colorbars
Add warning filters to unit tests.