Joss-reviews: [PRE REVIEW]: Your: Your Unified Reader

[whedon]

Submitting author: @KshitijAggarwal (Kshitij Aggarwal)
Repository: https://github.com/thepetabyteproject/your
Version: v0.5.1
Editor: @dfm
Reviewers: @pravirkr, @paulray
Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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[whedon]

Failed to discover a Statement of need section in paper

[whedon]

Software report (experimental):

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.84  T=3.18 s (17.0 files/s, 2935.9 lines/s)
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Language                     files          blank        comment           code
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Python                          38           1446           1087           3698
Jupyter Notebook                 4              0           2089            264
Markdown                         7             83              0            262
TeX                              1             19              0            235
YAML                             4             17             10            136
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SUM:                            54           1565           3186           4595
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Statistical information for the repository '2610' was gathered on 2020/08/30.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Devansh Agarwal                142          8674           6711           53.47
Kshitij Aggarwal               136          7639           3912           40.14
Reshma Anna Thomas               1             2              0            0.01
Reshma Thomas                    4           274            234            1.77
ReshmaAnnaThomas                 4            14             37            0.18
devanshkv                        4            31             18            0.17
jkania7                         13           215            281            1.72
josephwkania                    18           433             94            1.83
wcfiore                          2           185             21            0.72

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
Devansh Agarwal            2898           33.4          3.4                6.25
Kshitij Aggarwal           3004           39.3          1.8                6.23
jkania7                     100           46.5          3.8                4.00
josephwkania                222           51.3          0.4               20.72
wcfiore                       7            3.8          0.3                0.00

[whedon]

Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1093/mnras/staa1927 is OK
- 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00882.x is OK
- 10.1109/MCSE.2007.55 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.3509134 is OK
-  10.25080/Majora-92bf1922-00a  is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201322068 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f is OK
- 10.1071/AS04022 is OK
- 10.1145/2833157.2833162 is OK
- 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20622.x is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/staa1856 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1109/mcse.2011.37 may be a valid DOI for title: The NumPy array: a structure for efficient numerical computation

INVALID DOIs

- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2 is INVALID because of 'https://doi.org/' prefix

[whedon]

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

[kthyng]

Failed to discover a Statement of need section in paper

@KshitijAggarwal Please add in a statement of need

[kthyng]

@xuanxu, @harpolea, @dfm Could one of you take this on? You all have several submissions and I can't tell if one of you is more closely related. Thanks!

[KshitijAggarwal]

@kthyng Added statement of need, and fixed DOIs
https://github.com/thepetabyteproject/your/commit/e36938e008689d9280267db2057d01b9cc226835, https://github.com/thepetabyteproject/your/commit/e70a4a19abc131e4bee66705a7f9d4341decd923

[KshitijAggarwal]

Potential reviewers: hpparvi, olebole

[dfm]

@kthyng: Sorry - I missed this! I'm happy to edit this submission.

[dfm]

@whedon assign me as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @dfm

[dfm]

:wave: @olebole: Are you available to review this one? (I know you just recently finished your previous review so no worries if this is too much!)

[dfm]

@pravirkr has agreed to act as a reviewer - thanks! Once we have a second, I'll get the review started.

[dfm]

@whedon assign @pravirkr as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @pravirkr is now a reviewer

[olebole]

@dfm sorry, too busy in the moment. I'd look however forward next time!

[KshitijAggarwal]

@dfm Is any information required from my end on this?

[dfm]

Nope. Just working on finding a second reviewer. I'll let you know as soon as I do.

[dfm]

I'm still working on finding a second reviewer over here (perhaps because many people are starting their semester right now!). Thanks for your patience!

[dfm]

@paulray has agreed to act as the second reviewer. Thanks, Paul! I'll add him and then we'll get the review started in a new thread.

all: Let me know if you have any questions as we go. Thanks again for your patience!

[dfm]

@whedon add @paulray as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @paulray is now a reviewer

[dfm]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2750.