- fix  #388
- corrected remaining wrong date to be MM/DD/YYYY format
- make format clearer in top message
- reformatting (line length, spaces)

- generated with https://bit.ly/cffinit
- authors and order from AUTHORS
- affiliations and ORCID from JOSS paper
- emails from paper or individuals

Co-authored-by: David L. Dotson <dotsdl@gmail.com>

- inferred DOI from proof
- assume final acceptance in 2024...

- added David Mobley @davidlmobley (original conception and design of alchemlyb)
- added Michael Shirts @mrshirts (original conception and design of alchemlyb)

- CHANGES: bump to 2.3.3
- add reminder to AUTHORS to also update CITATION.cff

Added all authors that were mentioned in the Acknowledgements of the JOSS
paper but were not in AUTHORS

- Wei-Tse Hsu @wehs7661 (2020) for code clean-up in a732380
- Jan Janssen  @jan-janssen (2022) for creating the conda-forge package
- Shujie Fan @VOD555 (2022) for initial code for fractional equilibration time
- Helmut Carter @helmutcarter (2024) for doc fix in #356

* Add moving_average function for visualization and convergence testing

* Update versionadded

* Run Black

* Bug fix bar_.py states

* Update Changelog

* Update the docs

* Add tests

* Formatting to align with Black

* Update tests

* Refactor moving_average to align with forward_backward_convergence function

* Update tests

* Update test_convergence and lambda tests in convergence.moving_average

* Adjust convergence.py and tests for codecoverage

* black

* Update moving_average to block_average for more accurate descriptive name

* Address reviewer comments

* Update test to align with changed handling of dfs of different length in block_average

* Remove incorrect popagation of error in BAR

* Add tests and error catch for ill constructed BAR input, u_nk

* black

* Updated version comments

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Co-authored-by: Oliver Beckstein <orbeckst@gmail.com>

AUTHORS entry had been forgotten in PR #381

* add CITATION.cff file
* close #394
* add all AUTHORS with ORCIDs and affiliation (as far as they are confirmed);   order based on AUTHORS
* add alchemlyb PIs
* add contributors that were listed in JOSS paper acknowledgements (PR #328) but had NOT been listed in AUTHORS (inserted in chronological order)
* only add emails for maintainers/PIs
* add Software Heritage Identifier
* add paper citation section for MBAR, decorrelation, and preliminary citation for JOSS paper #71 
* add one new contributor (from recent PR #381) to AUTHORS and CITATIONS.cff

* fix bug introduced in PR #381: there was a change to creating the delta_f_ matrix,
  which resulted in the columns and indices being tuples that were in the wrong order 
  for single lambda computations.
* ensure that columns are in the correct order by explicitly sorting
* add a test for the delta_f_ columns

- fix #385
- use pyproject.toml instead of setup.py (note: may need to change README for PyPi to exclude
  banners)
- remove versioneer and use versioningit (use alchemlyb.__version__ directly where
  the version is needed, e.g., for sphinx docs)
- updated CHANGES for 2.4.0

- gitignore _version
- ignore commits for blame that contain black-reformatting
  (in particular we forgot to include #280)

prepare release 2.4.0 (for #396)