ecological-forecasting-workflows-draft

Draft of collaborative paper on issues and opportunities in software for ecological forecasting.

Target Journal: Methods in Ecology and Environment

For an overview of next steps, please consult the [list of Milestones] (https://github.com/dlebauer/ecological-forecasting-workflows-draft/milestones). Briefly, these are:

1. Pull together comments and assign sections sections
   • Review outline. This is the proposed document structure.
   • Review text that has already been written
   • Identify which sections (if any) you are interested in contributing
   • Volunteer for writing and state level of interest in contributing
2. Write first draft

To be added to the list of collaborators either submit a pull request, create / reply to an issue, or contact David LeBauer.

Contributing

As appropriate, please free to communicate via email, Authorea in-line comments, or GitHub issues or pull requests.

Send text

• Choose a section, write some text, email it

Using Authorea

In-web text editor, synced with github version, easy to read / edit the text Authorea version. Email David to ask to be added as an author. Then edit in the browser.

Using GitHub

You can contribute a lot without using the command line. It is straight forward to edit files in GitHub, and they have a nice browser too. See the GitHub documentation. The primary limitation of GitHub is that you can't view all of the sections within a single document.

There is some learning curve to the concepts of forking, cloning, and pulling. GitHub's documentation (click 'help' at top of page is great, in particular see collaborating and using pull requests.

General steps are to:

1. create a github account (https://github.com/join)
2. send username to David
3. edit anything you want by clicking the edit / pencil icon
4. fork and clone the repository
5. Submit pull request