Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: treemaker

[whedon]

Submitting author: @SimonGreenhill (Simon Greenhill)
Repository: https://github.com/simonGreenhill/Treemaker
Version: v1.03
Editor: @trallard
Reviewers: @RichardLitt, @deniederhut

Author instructions

Thanks for submitting your paper to JOSS @SimonGreenhill. The JOSS editor (shown at the top of this issue) will work with you on this issue to find a reviewer for your submission before creating the main review issue.

@SimonGreenhill if you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread. In addition, this list of people have already agreed to review for JOSS and may be suitable for this submission.

Editor instructions

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@whedon commands

[whedon]

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[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

:point_right: Check article proof :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[SimonGreenhill]

@whedon commands

[whedon]

Here are some things you can ask me to do:

# List Whedon's capabilities
@whedon commands

# List of editor GitHub usernames
@whedon list editors

# List of reviewers together with programming language preferences and domain expertise
@whedon list reviewers

# Compile the paper
@whedon generate pdf

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# Compile the paper from a custom git branch
@whedon generate pdf from branch custom-branch-name

[arfon]

@trallard - would you be able to edit this submission for JOSS?

[trallard]

Sure @arfon

👋 @SimonGreenhill I will be handling editor for your submission. Have you thought about any reviewers for the package?
If you have not gotten anyone in mind you can check the current reviewers registered using the following command @whedon list reviewers

[trallard]

@whedon assign @trallard as editor

[SimonGreenhill]

Thanks @trallard, any of the python people should be ok. It's a very simple package* so should be quite easy to review, I hope

(* in fact, I worry it's _too_ simple, but it does fill a small and annoying gap in the toolkit).

[arfon]

@whedon assign @trallard as editor

Looks like @whedon is sleepy... Let me check in on this...

[SimonGreenhill]

@whedon list reviewers

[whedon]

Here's the current list of reviewers: https://bit.ly/joss-reviewers

[arfon]

@whedon assign @trallard as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @trallard

[arfon]

@whedon list editors

[whedon]

Current editors:

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman
@acabunoc
@arfon
@arokem
@brainstorm
@cMadan
@danielskatz
@george-githinji
@jakevdp
@jasonclark
@jedbrown
@karthik
@katyhuff
@kthyng
@kyleniemeyer
@labarba
@leeper
@lheagy
@mgymrek
@pjotrp
@tracykteal
@trallard
@yochannah

[SimonGreenhill]

Perhaps (not @'ing them out of politeness): richardlitt, deniederhut, krother, Genomematt (trying to find linguistics/bioinformatics/phylogenetics/anthropology matches)

[trallard]

Hi @RichardLitt @deniederhut @krother @genomematt would any of you be interested in and have availability to review this JOSS submission?
We'd ideally be looking at getting two reviewers

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[RichardLitt]

@whedon assign @RichardLitt as editor

[whedon]

I'm sorry @RichardLitt, I'm afraid I can't do that. That's something only editors are allowed to do.

[RichardLitt]

Well then.

[RichardLitt]

@whedon assign @RichardLitt as reviewer

[whedon]

I'm sorry @RichardLitt, I'm afraid I can't do that. That's something only editors are allowed to do.

[trallard]

hey @RichardLitt thanks for agreeing to review this submission. I will wait and see if any of the other proposed reviewers would be happy to join before jumping into the formal review process/issue

[trallard]

@whedon assign @RichardLitt as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @RichardLitt

[deniederhut]

@trallard I'm in!

[trallard]

@whedon add @deniederhut as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @deniederhut is now a reviewer

[trallard]

@whedon add @deniederhut as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @deniederhut is now a reviewer

[trallard]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/1040. Feel free to close this issue now!

[trallard]

Closing this issue now. @deniederhut and @RichardLitt let's proceed with the review at #1040 🌟