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Attempting PDF compilation. Reticulating splines etc...

PDF failed to compile for issue #1223 with the following error:

/app/vendor/ruby-2.4.4/lib/ruby/2.4.0/find.rb:43:in block in find': No such file or directory - tmp/1223 (Errno::ENOENT) from /app/vendor/ruby-2.4.4/lib/ruby/2.4.0/find.rb:43:in collect!'
from /app/vendor/ruby-2.4.4/lib/ruby/2.4.0/find.rb:43:in find' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-c5f29247288e/lib/whedon/processor.rb:57:in find_paper_paths'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-c5f29247288e/bin/whedon:47:in prepare' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in run'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in invoke_command' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor.rb:387:in dispatch'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/thor-0.20.3/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in start' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bundler/gems/whedon-c5f29247288e/bin/whedon:113:in <top (required)>'
from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bin/whedon:23:in load' from /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/bin/whedon:23:in

This software looks useful, even though there's a problem compiling the paper. You can make changes to the source, then enter @whedon compile pdf as a new comment here to try to fix it.

Another issue I have is that it's not clear to me that this is research software according to the JOSS guidelines:

JOSS publishes articles about research software. This definition includes software that: solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context (physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience, engineering); supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments; extracts knowledge from large data sets; offers a mathematical library, or similar.

Can you help me understand this?

Regarding the guidelines, I think it fits under:

supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments

But I may be wrong. I had JOSS suggested to me by the creator of IPython. And I received a GitHub Issue asking how to cite the project. Consider some of the users:

• Zipline, an algorithmic trading library from Quantopian
• Angr, a binary analysis platform from UC Santa Barbara
• Trio, an async I/O library
• Dask Distributed, a distributed computation library supported by Continuum Analytics
• Astropy, a community Python library for astronomy

Does that satisfy?

Also, I looked through GitHub issues trying to understand how the PDF is generated:

• openjournals/joss#370
• openjournals/joss#379
• https://github.com/openjournals/whedon
• https://gist.github.com/mhucka/5ecb18aa2fd088c055de07366f70135e
• https://github.com/openbases/builder-pdf

But I was unable to reproduce the problem. (Maybe those links will be useful for a future visitor). There seems to be a "paper.md" file that is missing. Is that something I generate? I'm happy to accommodate, just not sure what's necessary. I could see how the project README may not be as useful for a paper as say the Performance Comparison, Implementation Details, or Performance at Scale materials.

Hi @grantjenks - please take a look at the submission guidelines and prepare a paper.md and paper.bib file and include them in your repository (https://github.com/grantjenks/python-sortedcontainers). Once you've uploaded them, Whedon (the robot here) will be able to compile the paper.

In your paper, please be sure to address each of the points listed in the section what should my paper contain?.

Regarding the research application, the problem is that your package is not used by end users for research, but according to your comment, is used by other libraries and packages, some of which then are used for research. I think that's fine, but want to hear from @arfon before we go on.