Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: sbi - a toolkit for simulation-based inference

[whedon]

Submitting author: @janfb (Jan Boelts)
Repository: https://github.com/mackelab/sbi
Version: v0.10.0
Editor: @dfm
Reviewers: @EiffL, @cranmer
Managing EiC: Lorena A Barba

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PDF failed to compile for issue #2486 with the following error:

Can't find any papers to compile :-(

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Software report (experimental):

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Statistical information for the repository '2486' was gathered on 2020/07/18.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Alvaro Tejero-Canter            96          7536           7451           12.48
Conor Durkan                     1         13290              0           11.07
David Greenberg                  1             2              2            0.00
Harry Fu Yu                      1            10              9            0.02
Jan                             12          1206           2821            3.35
Jan-Matthis                     12           993            867            1.55
Michael Deistler                81         11643           7351           15.82
dgreenberg                       1            13              9            0.02
jan-matthis                     21         15553          14266           24.84
janfb                           76          6820           5528           10.28
meteore                          8          8364          15833           20.15
michael                          6           306            192            0.41

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Conor Durkan                702            5.3          0.0                9.83
Harry Fu Yu                  10          100.0          0.2                0.00
Jan                          70            5.8          4.9                4.29
Jan-Matthis                2362          237.9          2.2                6.39
Michael Deistler           2939           25.2          2.0                8.51
janfb                      2669           39.1          1.7                8.73
meteore                    2458           29.4          2.0               13.75
michael                     197           64.4          0.2               10.66

[labarba]

@whedon generate pdf from branch joss-submission

[whedon]

Attempting PDF compilation from custom branch joss-submission. Reticulating splines etc...

[whedon]

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

[labarba]

@whedon invite @dfm as editor

[whedon]

@dfm has been invited to edit this submission.

[dfm]

@labarba: I'm happy to edit this submission!

[dfm]

@whedon assign @dfm as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @dfm

[janfb]

@dfm thanks for editing our submission!

[dfm]

@EiffL and @cranmer have kindly agreed to review this submission. I'll add them and we'll get the review started in a new thread. Thanks all!

[dfm]

@whedon assign @EiffL as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @EiffL is now a reviewer

[dfm]

@whedon add @cranmer as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @cranmer is now a reviewer

[dfm]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2505.