Software EngineeringOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Covers community peer review of research software: preparing a package for JOSS, pyOpenSci or rOpenSci submission, self-checking against their review criteria before submitting, writing the paper or statement of need, responding to reviews, and acting as a reviewer or CODECHECK-style codechecker who executes the artifact. Use when the user mentions JOSS, pyOpenSci, rOpenSci or CODECHECK, wants to submit software for peer review or publication, asks whether their package is review-ready, or is reviewing someone else's research software for one of these venues. (PR-level code review is rseng-version-control-review; overall publication channel strategy is rseng-software-publ…