Untrack files and pyproject.toml edit

[stevenhua0320]

1. Add those rst untrack files for authors, license, code_of_conduct etc.
2. edit the pyproject.toml in accordance with srmise info

[sbillinge]

This is good. In the license file I think we need a copyright statement for 2015 for the trustees of Michigan State University everwhere the license appears, as well as the existing Columbia 2024 statement.

Otherwise, I think I can merge this, but I want to merge the p2 -> p3 branch first when it passes tests.

Try and get that one to pass tests locally after merging upstream/p3 into it. It is ok to make intermediate pushes with tests not passing, but try and do debugging work by running tests locally, not using CI for that.

[sbillinge]

I can merge this one after we fix the couple of inline comments. I will look for an email for Luke if I can find it and you can add that to the authors in the toml file

[sbillinge]

This also needs the updated copyright statements

[sbillinge]

let's add luke granlund to this.