Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software

This seems like a great idea, but I think it could be vastly helped by some examples about the format should be, what kind of software is acceptable, etc.<p>For instance: When I was in school, I wrote a MATLAB program to simulate grid cells in a rat hippocampus. Is that acceptable? I&#x27;ve also written numerous packages for Django - are those? And so on..

This journal also is also encouraging and rewarding good software development practices, such as documentation, licensing, having the code in version control and testing. These practices are sadly not common in scientific software, partly because there is little academic reward.

I would personally love for one of these groups to succeed. I&#x27;d love to pitch in any way I can.

Since writing the paper is expected to take no more than an hour, given the software is already written, I wonder if they&#x27;re worried about receiving a flood of submissions. Perhaps it&#x27;s less of a problem since reviewing a paper should take much less time given their length?

If the only point of this is for credits and reputation, than I find it useless as there are a variety of ways for one to get credit. The number of citations means nothing compared to how many users are actually using the software everyday.<p>Also, a paper is inherently different from a piece of open source software - a paper is set to present facts about something observed in nature; software on the other hand is used to accomplish a specific task.