@cooler_ranch yuppp sounds like research-code smell. (my main FLOSS project and I are mostly in academia, so I've had to wander through altoghether too much non-idiomatic python doing very clever maths without explaining it)

@oneiro it's important work but holy cow. I don't know how anyone in academia expects others to use or understand their work.

@cooler_ranch it's more about the meme / buzzword / citation shtick. academics who care about open source / code reuse generally learn and nurture that care outside of the university

@cooler_ranch good news is, once FLOSS practices and ethics get embedded in academic practice they'll last through decades of continued capitalist assault

@oneiro i hope it really sticks. Kinda tough to justify a better practices/ hygienic development course on its face.

However, your work is wasted if it never gets read/explored/used by being incomprehensible or simply painful.

@oneiro or just being locked away as somebody's IP.

@cooler_ranch I think it'll happen as the center-of-mass of research discourse / recognition moves towards preprints and public places, as has been happening with NNs. But it'll take at least 10 years/ two tenure cycles before the people doing that kinda work can start imposing it as a norm, even in very computational disciplines

@cooler_ranch and before that happens we have to deal with the (deserved) criticism that just putting a blog post and a repo online isn't research without the citations and concern for historical precedents

@oneiro I guess just keep the pressure and momentum. I'm really hopeful for the shift.