lenstronomy submission for JOSS - paper draft and author sign-up sheet

[Simon Birrer]

Dear lenstronomy community,

as announced at the end of last year, the plan for this spring was to submit a JOSS paper updating the scientific community about the development of lenstronomy and reflecting the contributions being made by many of you over the last couple of years in the authorship.

I finally created a first draft of a short JOSS submission paper. I welcome any comments on this first draft in the next two week, until April 17th. The draft can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MFtjLDlbvmyntNBZi9UgEKRlYBjP0DbEiKpasH7v84w/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the link to the JOSS submission requirements:

https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html

Authorship:

The JOSS authorship policy reads: "Purely financial (such as being named on an award) and organizational (such as general supervision of a research group) contributions are not considered sufficient for co-authorship of JOSS submissions, but active project direction and other forms of non-code contributions are. The authors themselves assume responsibility for deciding who should be credited with co-authorship, and co-authors must always agree to be listed. In addition, co-authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work, and to notify JOSS if any retraction or correction of mistakes are needed after publication."

I encourage everyone who has made either direct contributions to the source code, or indirect contributions in reporting bugs, commenting on features, or in any other form directly contributed to the development of lenstronomy, to sign-up as an author.

I have created a sign-up sheet, with name, affiliation, acknowledgements and a field highlighting your contributions. Please sign up until April 17th!

Sign-up sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZRJZQEM0_7Y8_6dVxxUjGoU38xzaKFXfdGUraoYxqOo/edit?usp=sharing

For those on the lenstronomy Slack channel, I created a dedicated channel #joss_paper for further discussion (please don’t use this mailing list if not necessary).

After this first round of comments and sign-ups, I will draft a submission and send out a revised version.

Thank you very much for all your contributions, looking forward to your comments (if any) and eventually the submission of this paper.

Best,

Simon

Simon Birrer

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Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow

Stanford | KIPAC

Email: sibi...@stanford.edu

Web: https://sibirrer.github.io