Initial abstract for astropy_helpers APE.  I'm not entirely sure this qualifies as an 'abstract' but it's somewhat complicated to explain the motivation behind this APE in the first place.
I guess this is destined to be APE4
Much shorter abstract--moved most of the original abstract into the description section, started filling out the implementation section, and included links to the relevant pull requests
Description of the astropy_helpers boostrap mechanisms
Make these bold
Fix typos
Added some ideas for future plans, and discussed some 'alternatives' that have been discussed.
Updated note about naming conventions
Misc moves and spelling tweaks
Added link to PR for package-template to use astropy_helpers
Added discussion of new additions, including the sphinx package and new ah_bootstrap features
Additional new ah_bootstrap features
Miscellaneous decisions regarding issue tracking and documentation for astropy-helpers
Slight change in wording
Fix a couple typos caught by @mwcraig
Mark APE3 as accepted
Make pull request reference into a link, and remove indentation from lists to prevent 'gray' formatting on GitHub.
Remove indentation from two more lists
Discuss addition of a --no-git command-line argument to help with testing.  The implementation of this addition is in https://github.com/astropy/astropy-helpers/pull/27
Updated words on issue-tracker usage to reflect how things have worked out in reality.  Added note about the versioning.