We need an Open Source Anti-Sisyphean League!
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A framework for thinking about Open Source Sustainability?
How open is too open?
How long does it take to produce scientific software?
Why software development practice matters, Containerization version
A while back, Kai Blin (via Nick Loman) asked Michael Barton:
If we containerize all these things won't it just encourage worse software development practices; right now developers still need to consider someone other than themselves installing the software.
and Michael Barton's response, transcribed, was:
"It's a good point. Ultimately …
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Sustaining the development of research-focused software
Recently I was asked by someone at a funding organization about the term "hardening software"; I wrote a blog post asking others what they thought, and this got a number of great comments (as well as spurring Dan Katz to write a blog post of his own). I'd already written …
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What do you think about the term & practice of "hardening software"?
I just received an e-mail from someone in the funding world who thinks a lot about software, and they were interested in any thoughts I might have on the term "software hardening", and its practice. To quote,
This is about making research software more robust, more easily usable and possibly …
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