Re: “Reproducible research articles, from source code to PDF”

[zimoun]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 13:42, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:

>> I'd start somewhat differently: generate diverse use case examples.  The
>> contributions to the ReScience reproducibility challenge could be a nice
>> starting point: go through them, one by one, and try to re-implement the
>> authors' various approaches with Guix.  Then, in a second step, try to
>> identify additional tooling support in Guix that would make the recipes
>> simpler to implement. That might well lead to the development of ready
>> to use templates, but I prefer starting from a use case analysis to see
>> what is needed in real life.
>
> Yes, sounds like a good plan!

Maybe we could organize a Virtual Hackathon?  Over 1 day?  Or 2 days?
The power of collective motivation. :-)