Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: Native PDF Reader Library in Julia

[whedon]

Submitting author: @sambitdash (Sambit Kumar Dash)
Repository: https://github.com/sambitdash/PDFIO.jl
Version: v0.1.1
Editor: @alexhanna
Reviewers: @jameshclrk, @malmaud

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[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #1323 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

[arfon]

@sambitdash - :wave: thanks for your submission to JOSS. From a quick inspection of this submission it's not entirely obvious that it meets our submission criteria. In particular, this item:

• Your software should have an obvious research application

Could you confirm here that there _is_ a research application for this software (and explain what that application is)? The section _'what should my paper contain'_ has some guidance for the sort of content we're looking to be present in the paper.md.

Many thanks!

[sambitdash]

From the said site I gather JOSS is interested in the following areas:

JOSS publishes articles about research software. This definition includes software that: solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context (physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience, engineering); supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments; extracts knowledge from large data sets; offers a mathematical library, or similar.

There is no in-built native tool in Julia to read PDF files and extract text from documents. This tool enables you to achieve that. I guess from that perspective, it fits into the area of interest JOSS has defined for itself. Implementation of PDF Library from scratch is a fairly non-trivial task which has been achieved in this exercise using a new programming language.

[sambitdash]

@arfon Sorry I may have misunderstood. Are you suggesting, I provide a detailed description as paper.md template? Should I check it in the PDFIO.jl repositiory?

[arfon]

@arfon Sorry I may have misunderstood. Are you suggesting, I provide a detailed description as paper.md template? Should I check it in the PDFIO.jl repositiory?

Yes please. Please review the submission guidelines here: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#submitting-a-paper-to-joss

[danielskatz]

I'm going to mark this as paused until we hear back from @sambitdash

[sambitdash]

@danielskatz Thanks for the update. I will take a few more days to complete the paper submission.

[danielskatz]

👋 @sambitdash - any news? We could just remove this paper for now, and let you resubmit when you are ready... Or if you are close to having a paper written and in your repo, and want to proceed soon, let us know.

[sambitdash]

@danielskatz Sorry for the delay on my part. I will be able to submit the paper by the end of this week. If that's not too late will request to keep this request active for now.

[sambitdash]

@danielskatz submitted the paper in the Github folder. Kindly, review the submission and provide your feedback.

[danielskatz]

You can also issue the command I'm going to give next, by putting the same text in a new comment, in case the paper isn't quite right in your opinion, or if anything fails in the build.

[danielskatz]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[danielskatz]

@sambitdash - note there are some issues with your reference that you can fix - otherwise, thanks, this looks fine to proceed, which we will do

[danielskatz]

👋 @yochannah - would you be willing to edit this submission?

[sambitdash]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[sambitdash]

@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

EDITORIAL TASKS

# Compile the paper
@whedon generate pdf

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

# Ask Whedon to check the references for missing DOIs
@whedon check references

[sambitdash]

@whedon generate pdf from branch debug

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch debug. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[sambitdash]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[sambitdash]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[sambitdash]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[sambitdash]

The reference issue is now addressed.

[danielskatz]

👋 @yochannah - ping...

[danielskatz]

👋 @alexhanna - would you be willing to edit this submission?

[kyleniemeyer]

@whedon assign @alexhanna as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @alexhanna

[alexhanna]

Hi @sambitdash, can you suggest some reviewers for this? You can also get some suggestions on list of potential reviewers mentioned in the first message of this issue.

[sambitdash]

malmaud, jameshclrk, ChrisRackauckas can be comfortable reviewing code with the Julia Language and hence with this package.

[alexhanna]

@malmaud, @jameshclrk, @ChrisRackauckas -- are any of you available to edit this submission?

[arfon]

@malmaud, @jameshclrk, @ChrisRackauckas -- are any of you available to edit this submission?

By edit, you mean _review_ right 😃

[alexhanna]

YES. Sorry. It's still before 8 AM here. :P

[jameshclrk]

I'm happy to review this at the weekend, hope that's ok!

[alexhanna]

@whedon assign @jameshclrk as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @jameshclrk

[alexhanna]

Wonderful, thanks! @malmaud or @ChrisRackauckas, do you have any interest in joining on?

[ChrisRackauckas]

Sorry I will not have the time

[malmaud]

Ya I can review this weekend.

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:39 AM Christopher Rackauckas <
[email protected]> wrote:

Sorry I will not have the time

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[alexhanna]

Excellent.

[alexhanna]

@whedon add @malmaud as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @malmaud is now a reviewer

[alexhanna]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/1453. Feel free to close this issue now!