Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: Blimpy: Breakthrough Listen I/O Methods for Python

[whedon]

Submitting author: @telegraphic (Danny Price)
Repository: https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/blimpy
Version: 1.3.6
Editor: @xuanxu
Reviewers: @garrettj403, @zhampel

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[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

PDF failed to compile for issue #1534 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

[kyleniemeyer]

Hi @xuanxu, this submission looks right up your alley. Can you edit?

[kyleniemeyer]

Hey @arfon, I see paper.md and paper.bib right at the top level of the repo, any idea why whedon doesn't see those?

[kyleniemeyer]

Hi @telegraphic, thanks for your submission. While we get things initiated here, I noticed that your article is quite short; although we don't publish full-length papers here, we do expect 250-1000 words (one or two pages in PDF format is typical). Can you expand on your software a bit more, for example talking about features, infrastructure, etc., or even giving one or two examples?

[arfon]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[xuanxu]

Hi @xuanxu, this submission looks right up your alley. Can you edit?

@kyleniemeyer yes, I can edit this

[xuanxu]

@whedon assign @xuanxu as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @xuanxu

[telegraphic]

Hi @kyleniemeyer -- happy to expand on the software, will add a few paragraphs

[xuanxu]

:wave: @garrettj403 and @dhuppenkothen: Would you be willing to review this paper? I think your expertise in Python and Jupyter notebooks and your background on Astronomy/Radioastronomy makes both of you a great fit for this submission.

[dhuppenkothen]

@xuanxu Unfortunately I'm going to be travelling/teaching/organizing at a school for the next few weeks, so I don't think I can do this on a timescale earlier than about a month from now. I'm really sorry!

[garrettj403]

Hi @xuanxu, I'm happy to review this repo. I'm not very familiar with SETI or the Breakthrough Listen program, but it looks like an interesting project!

[xuanxu]

Thanks for agreeing to review @garrettj403, I will assign you now.
I'll start the review issue once I find the second reviewer. Stay tuned.

[xuanxu]

@whedon assign @garrettj403 as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, the reviewer is @garrettj403

[xuanxu]

:wave: @benjaminrose — would you be willing to contribute a review for JOSS on this submission?

[garrettj403]

Hi @telegraphic - In case you didn't know this, ApJ has an agreement with JOSS where you can submit two papers in parallel: one to JOSS and one to ApJ. You can find more info here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf876

[telegraphic]

Thanks @garrettj403 for bringing that to my attention!

[xuanxu]

:wave: @zhampel — would you be willing to contribute a review for JOSS on this submission?

[zhampel]

@xuanxu Yes I can provide a review for this submission.

[xuanxu]

Great, thanks @zhampel
I'm going to move this forward to review

[xuanxu]

@whedon add @zhampel as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @zhampel is now a reviewer

[xuanxu]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/1554. Feel free to close this issue now!

[xuanxu]

@garrettj403, @zhampel - please head over to #1554 where the review will take place.