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

[Ludovic Courtès]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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. :-)

Sounds like a good idea!  Perhaps a one-day hackathon to begin with?
Early July maybe?

Ludo’.