Daniel S. Katz

The other choice is that JOSS may not be the right journal for what you want to accomplish with your paper and software. Please see https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#other-venues-for-reviewing-and-publishing-software-packages for other suggestions for...

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@david-mathews-1994 - I think you may be right about how the word count is done. However, having said that, your paper still seems quite long to me. I think if...

the figure there (which must have been added a long time ago and I missed somehow) is old - the one I pointed to is an update.

In my experience, academia (at least the part that's aware of open source software) uses bus factor. In academia, most people who don't know it, after having it explained, generally...

I would vote against Pony Factor, as it's based on an in-joke that is just confusing to people who aren't in the group `(because ASF is full of ponies, or...

I like Risk better than Count, as it has the same sense (of urgency/danger) that Bus Factor has. It also feels less like something people would try to game

Sorry, but I have no idea what majority means in this context. And given that not all open source contributions are captured in a repository, how would it be measured?

I did not make any code changes, just changes to the JOSS paper, so this process should not depend on me in any way, but if you need me to...

@dmronga - Can you say what specific steps you went through? (and please ping me - @danielskatz on your reply)