Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: WEdiff: A Python and C++ package for automatic differentiation

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Submitting author: @ctdegroot (Christopher DeGroot)
Repository: https://bitbucket.org/cdegroot/wediff
Version: N/A
Editor: @arfon
Reviewers: @highlando, @kyleniemeyer

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[arfon]

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[ctdegroot]

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[ctdegroot]

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Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

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[ctdegroot]

Some suggested reviewers are @clemaitre5 @highlando @kyleniemeyer @dlagrava

[highlando]

Looks interesting and in my field of expertise. What do I have to do?

[arfon]

@whedon assign @arfon as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @arfon

[arfon]

Looks interesting and in my field of expertise. What do I have to do?

@highlando - thanks! You can get an idea of the review process here:

• https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html

Basically the review happens in a GitHub issue and has a bunch of checkboxes for you to work through. If you're able to help us that would be great!

[labarba]

@arfon --- thanks for taking over; I've been overloaded, and off to SciPy tomorrow, so unable to attend to new things short-fuse.

[kyleniemeyer]

I would also look at this but can't really for two weeks... @arghdos might be interested though.

[highlando]

@arfon OK, I will provide a review. It looks like you have to start the review process first. https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/editing.html

[arfon]

@kyleniemeyer - would you be willing to be a second reviewer?

[arfon]

@whedon assign @highlando as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @highlando

[kyleniemeyer]

@arfon I can't really for at least another week (CAREER proposal due...)

[arfon]

@arfon I can't really for at least another week (CAREER proposal due...)

NP. I'm happy to wait for a couple of weeks :-)

[highlando]

@arfon still, it looks like you have to initialize the review process (to change the state from [PRE REVIEW] to [REVIEW])...

[arfon]

Yep, was hoping to hear back from Kyle that he was OK with this but let's assume he is and I'm sure he'll let us know if not 😬

[arfon]

@whedon add @kyleniemeyer as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @kyleniemeyer is now a reviewer

[arfon]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/820. Feel free to close this issue now!

[arfon]

@ctdegroot @highlando @kyleniemeyer - see you all over in #820 for the actual review.