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Pre-submission enquiry -- the Basic Model Interface (BMI) #690
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Thanks for this interesting question. My opinion is that this could be reviewed in combination with clients (at least the various examples, which reside in different repositories; possibly a "real" client depending on opinions of other editors). I think the SIDL file and documentation on its own is too meta. |
@jedbrown Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I agree with you--the SIDL file + docs are insufficient; the work should encompass the language specs + examples. (Note that the examples are intentionally scientifically uninteresting. They're designed to be simple, so the focus is on the BMI implementation.) If it would help the editors in their decision, a paper.md file is available in the mdpiper/paper branch of the repository. |
Yes, I think that would make most sense. |
Yep, please go ahead and submit @mdpiper! |
Awesome! Thanks! |
Hello editors,
I'm writing to ask whether a project I'm working on is appropriate for submission to JOSS.
The project is the Basic Model Interface (BMI): https://github.com/csdms/bmi. BMI supplies a standardized set of functions for querying, modifying, and running a numerical model. I've gone over the scope and submission requirements, and I believe I can be in compliance, yet I'm concerned that because it's an interface, it's not really software. (It's metasoftware!) The project has full documentation. It also has software derived from it--specifications for four languages, plus sample implementations in these languages (please see the repo README for links)--but it's difficult to talk about these products without referring to the BMI from which they're derived.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.
cc @mcflugen
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