This hits a very soft spot. There is no credit for maintaining packages in #openscience.
I maintain 11 #rstats packages, good for close to ~200K downloads. They are used in teaching, analysis, papers, by government agencies, you name it.
Credit, as in citations, hardly any. Pull requests, hardly any, feature requests and not reading the docs (too many).
#academicmastodon #AcademicChatter #opensource
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02008-w
I maintain 11 #rstats packages, good for close to ~200K downloads. They are used in teaching, analysis, papers, by government agencies, you name it.
Credit, as in citations, hardly any. Pull requests, hardly any, feature requests and not reading the docs (too many).
#academicmastodon #AcademicChatter #opensource
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02008-w
Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Better incentives are needed to reward academic software developmentNature