From 25af86599845f23b0ce57dc1cbe743b3a1e68d1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ooprathamm <89736193+ooprathamm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 20:22:59 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [DOC] Removes LGTM Badges from README.md (#1651)

* Added synk.io badge

* Removes LGTM badges and repurposes the row to Synk Advisor

* removes LGTM badges

* making final changes to this PR

* Add whatsnew note

* Add bullet to lgtm entry

---------

Co-authored-by: Pratham Chauhan <Prathamchauhan2002@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam R. Jensen <39184289+AdamRJensen@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .lgtm.yml                              |  3 ---
 MANIFEST.in                            |  1 -
 README.md                              | 11 -----------
 docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst |  3 ++-
 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .lgtm.yml

diff --git a/.lgtm.yml b/.lgtm.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 701c795978..0000000000
--- a/.lgtm.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-path_classifiers:
-    library:
-        - pvlib/_deprecation.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index d907e04a7b..aa31750223 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ global-exclude \#*
 global-exclude .ipynb_checkpoints
 
 exclude .coveragerc
-exclude .lgtm.yml
 exclude .stickler.yml
 exclude codecov.yml
 exclude readthedocs.yml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c7fefe9014..6a1c68683a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,17 +36,6 @@
     </a>
   </td>
 </tr>
-<tr>
-  <td>Code Quality</td>
-  <td>
-    <a href="https://lgtm.com/projects/g/pvlib/pvlib-python/context:python">
-    <img src="https://img.shields.io/lgtm/grade/python/g/pvlib/pvlib-python.svg?logo=lgtm&logoWidth=18" alt="lgtm quality grade" />
-    </a>
-    <a href="https://lgtm.com/projects/g/pvlib/pvlib-python/alerts">
-    <img src="https://img.shields.io/lgtm/alerts/g/pvlib/pvlib-python.svg?logo=lgtm&logoWidth=18" alt="lgtm alters" />
-    </a>
-  </td>
-</tr>
 <tr>
   <td>Benchmarks</td>
   <td>
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
index eda53581b9..816f41dfa7 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Testing
 
 Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
+* Remove LGTM.com integration. (:issue:`1550`, :pull:`1651`)
 
 Benchmarking
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ Contributors
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * Kevin Anderson (:ghuser:`kanderso-nrel`)
 * Will Holmgren (:ghuser:`wholmgren`)
+* Pratham Chauhan (:ghuser:`ooprathamm`)