@cboettig’s opinions remind of what has been a perennial challenge on this front: to have a review process, one needs some common agreement on what a project structure should be, and what standards should be. Expectations need to be set at the lab/group level for this. My current opinion is that it’s not a problem that can be solved for large communities. Nonetheless, last year at the unconf some of us took a crack at creating a checklist that is agnostic to language and structure/build systems: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OYcWJUk-MiM2C1TIHB1Rn6rXoF5fHwRX-7_C12Blx8g/edit#
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