Creating and Maintaining a Scientific Software Product Featuring SpecpolFlow

Spectropolarimetry is an important tool in astronomy, particularly in regards to stellar magnetism as it allows us to measure and characterize magnetic fields and their influence on both the star and its environment. Therefore, the development and maintenance of modern, flexible, and accessible computational tools that enable spectropolarimetric studies is essential. SpecpolFlow is a new software package for Python which provides a user-friendly pipeline for the analysis of optical spectropolarimetric data. While one focus of SpecpolFlow is on the accuracy of scientific results, the other important aspect is maintenance, accessibility, and ease of use. To that end, the package is fully documented and also includes an extensive set of tutorials at a variety of different levels of detail, enabling access for users at all mastery levels. Additionally, we ran a short virtual workshop demonstrating the basics of SpecpolFlow, which was received positively by the community. In this contribution, I will discuss how we made, maintain, and disseminate SpecpolFlow to the community as well as highlight some recent scientific results.