Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: approxposterior: A Python Implementation of “Bayesian Active Learning For Posterior Estimation”

[whedon]

Submitting author: @dflemin3 (David Fleming)
Repository: https://github.com/dflemin3/approxposterior
Version: v0.1
Editor: @jedbrown
Reviewers: @dmdu

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[arfon]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #704 with the following error:

/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/bundler/gems/whedon-a31a5c2a9125/lib/whedon.rb:78:in check_fields': Paper YAML header is missing expected fields: affiliations (RuntimeError) from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/bundler/gems/whedon-a31a5c2a9125/lib/whedon.rb:66:ininitialize'
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[arfon]

@dflemin3 - it looks like the YAML header of this paper is incorrectly structured. Could you take a look at the example here and fix your paper please? http://joss.theoj.org/about#author_guidelines

[dflemin3]

Hi @arfon, thanks for pointing that out! I reconfigured the paper to follow the author guidelines so hopefully it'll compile this time!

[arfon]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

--> Check article proof :page_facing_up: <--

[arfon]

:wave: @kyleniemeyer - would you be willing to edit this submission for JOSS? I realize this is a little outside your domain but perhaps you could solicit an extra reviewer or two? :grin:

[jedbrown]

@arfon I can take this one.

[arfon]

@arfon I can take this one.

Great, thanks!

Feel free to assign yourself with @whedon assign @jedbrown as editor

[jedbrown]

@whedon assign @jedbrown as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @jedbrown

[jedbrown]

@whedon assign @dmdu as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @dmdu

[arfon]

@jedbrown are you planning on adding a second reviewer? If not, then you can move this forward by typing:

@whedon start review magic-word=bananas

which will make the actual review issue.

[jedbrown]

@whedon start review magic-word=bananas

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/781. Feel free to close this issue now!

[jedbrown]

The second reviewer I had in mind just had a baby and @dmdu is entirely capable so one is enough.