Release 2.3.0 (#804)

* Update README.rst

* Update index.rst

* Update CHANGELOG.rst

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -14,8 +14,13 @@ What's New
     # cut border when saving (for maps)
     mpl.rcParams["savefig.bbox"] = "tight"
 
-climpred unreleased
-===================
+climpred v2.3.0 (2021-11-25)
+============================
+
+.. note::
+    As both maintainers moved out of academia into industry,
+    this will be probably the last release for a while.
+    If you are interested in maintaining climpred, please ping us.
 
 Bug Fixes
 ---------

README.rst

@@ -111,18 +111,17 @@ Verification of weather and climate forecasts.
 
 .. note::
 
-    We are actively looking for new contributors for climpred! Riley moved to McKinsey's
-    Climate Analytics team. Aaron is finishing his PhD, but will stay in academia.
+    We are actively looking for new contributors for climpred!
+    [Riley](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileybrady/) moved to McKinsey's
+    Climate Analytics team as a climate software engineer.
+    [Aaron](https://www.linkedin.com/in/springaaron/) moved to XING as a data scientist.
     We especially hope for python enthusiasts from seasonal, subseasonal or weather
     prediction community. In our past coding journey, collaborative coding, feedbacking
     issues and pull requests advanced our code and thinking about forecast verification
     more than we could have ever expected.
-    `Aaron <https://github.com/aaronspring/>`_ can provide guidance on
-    implementing new features into ``climpred``. Feel free to implement
-    your own new feature or take a look at the
+    Feel free to implement your own new feature or take a look at the
     `good first issue <https://github.com/pangeo-data/climpred/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22>`_
-    tag in the issues. Please reach out to us via `gitter <https://gitter.im/climpred>`_.
-
+    tag in the issues. If you are interested in maintaining climpred, please ping us.
 
 Installation
 ============

docs/source/index.rst

@@ -107,17 +107,17 @@ climpred: verification of weather and climate forecasts
 
 
 .. note::
-    We are actively looking for new contributors for climpred! Riley moved to McKinsey's
-    Climate Analytics team. Aaron is finishing his PhD, but will stay in academia.
+    We are actively looking for new contributors for climpred!
+    `Riley <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileybrady/>`_ moved to McKinsey's Climate
+    Analytics team as a climate software engineer. `Aaron <https://www.linkedin.com/in/springaaron/>`_
+    moved to XING as a data scientist.
     We especially hope for python enthusiasts from seasonal, subseasonal or weather
     prediction community. In our past coding journey, collaborative coding, feedbacking
     issues and pull requests advanced our code and thinking about forecast verification
     more than we could have ever expected.
-    `Aaron <https://github.com/aaronspring/>`_ can provide guidance on
-    implementing new features into climpred. Feel free to implement
-    your own new feature or take a look at the
-    `good first issue <https://github.com/pangeo-data/climpred/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22>`_
-    tag in the issues. Please reach out to us via `gitter <https://gitter.im/climpred>`_.
+    Feel free to implement your own new feature or take a look at the
+    `good first issue <https://github.com/pangeo-data/climpred/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22>`_.
+    If you are interested in maintaining climpred, please ping us.