Checklist for v0.2 release

[shoyer]

Requirements:

• Better documentation:
  • Tutorial introduces DataArray before and independently of Dataset
  • Revise README to emphasize that xray generalizes pandas to N-dimensions
  • New FAQ section to clarify relationship of xray to pandas, Iris and CDAT (Why not CDAT? #112)
  • Update What's New
• More consistent names:
  • dimensions -> dims and coordinates -> coords (Consistent use of abbreviations: attrs, dims, coords #190)
  • noncoordinates -> noncoords
• Lay groundwork for non-index coordinates (We need some way to identify non-index coordinates #197):
  • Require specifying attrs with a keyword argument in Dataset.__init__ (to make room for coords)
  • Don't allow indexing array.coords[0]
  • Remove the to argument from Dataset.apply (it will be much less clearly useful when we have non-index coords)
  • Add warning in the docs (clarify that "linked dataset variables" are going away)

Nice to have:

• Support modifying DataArray dimensions/coordinates in place (Support modifying DataArray dimensions and coordinates in-place #180)
• Automatic alignment in mathematical operations (WIP: Automatic label alignment for mathematical operations #184)
• Revised interface for CF encoding/decoding (Expose a public interface for CF encoding/decoding functions #155, Modular encoding #175)

[shoyer]

released!