Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: Qiskit VSCode: a tool to enhance the quantum computing programming experience

[whedon]

Submitting author: @cbjuan (Juan Cruz-Benito)
Repository: https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-vscode/
Version: v0.4.1
Editor: @danielskatz
Reviewers: @malmaud, @naberek

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[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #1183 with the following error:

ORCID looks to be the wrong length
/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-50d5912cf72a/lib/whedon.rb:91:in block in check_orcids': Problem with ORCID (000-0003-2045-8329) for Juan Cruz-Benito (RuntimeError) from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-50d5912cf72a/lib/whedon.rb:89:ineach'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-50d5912cf72a/lib/whedon.rb:89:in check_orcids' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-50d5912cf72a/lib/whedon.rb:70:ininitialize'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-50d5912cf72a/lib/whedon/processor.rb:32:in new' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-50d5912cf72a/lib/whedon/processor.rb:32:inset_paper'
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[arfon]

:wave: @danielskatz - the submitting author suggested you as the handling editor.

[danielskatz]

👋 @cbjuan - 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.

Also, your ORCID in paper.md is missing a leading zero. Please fix this, then in a new comment here, enter @whedon generate pdf

[cbjuan]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[cbjuan]

👋 @danielskatz! Thanks for your comments. I fixed the ORCID, and now @whedon can compile the PDF.

About the article proof, maybe we need to fix some titles in the references to meet some formal considerations. For example, the reference:

Research, I. (2018b). The ibm quantum experience. https://www.research.ibm.com/
ibm-q/.

should be (note the fixes in the author and the capitalization in the title):

IBM Research (2018b). The IBM Quantum Experience. https://www.research.ibm.com/
ibm-q/.

If possible, I would like to know how to fix these minor issues considering how PDF compiler handles that.

As prospective reviewers (I got them from the list) I would like to point out: @krischer, @mamrehn, and @malmaud. They have been selected mainly regarding their declared knowledge on Typescript and Python.

[danielskatz]

typically in bibtex files, you add {}s around anything you want to stay in the same case, for example:

title={The {IBM Q} experience and {QISKit} open-source quantum computing software}

note that the style is for no capitalization of non-leading words

[danielskatz]

👋 @krischer, @mamrehn, and @malmaud - would a couple of you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

[cbjuan]

Ok, @danielskatz. I was not sure about it. We will fix it.

[malmaud]

Yes, I'm happy to review this. Full disclosure though, I have worked at IBM research although not in this field and I do not know any of the authors.

[cbjuan]

Sorry, @danielskatz. I don't know that @malmaud worked at IBM Research previously. We don't know him. In any case, if you consider it, we can propose another reviewer.

[cbjuan]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[danielskatz]

@malmaud - Given what you've said, I don't see your previous work at IBM as an issue, though it's good to note. I'll assign you as a reviewer, but we won't start the review until we get a second reviewer. @cbjuan - if you have other suggestions outside the JOSS volunteer reviewer community, we're always willing to bring in more people.

[danielskatz]

@whedon assign @malmaud as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @malmaud

[danielskatz]

@cbjuan - Can you make any other suggestions about possible reviewers, from inside or outside the JOSS volunteer reviewer community? We need one more to get going...

[cbjuan]

Sure, sorry for the delay. From outside JOSS reviewers, I would like to recommend @victorvicpal. And from JOSS reviewers (if needed) I point out to @pragyansmita

[danielskatz]

Another reviewer volunteered in response to a tweet - thanks @naberek
So we will start the review now.

[danielskatz]

@whedon add @naberek as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @naberek is now a reviewer

[danielskatz]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/1188. Feel free to close this issue now!