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Should the pre-submission letter include explicit commitments to update? #177

Closed mrshirts closed 5 years ago

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

Should the pre-submission letter include explicit commitments to update, either from the authors, or from collaborators the lined up? And should it explicitly discuss things that might be in an update?

davidlmobley commented 5 years ago

No, not in my opinion. We already have a procedure in the guidelines for what happens if people don't update, and people are implicitly agreeing to update.

dmzuckerman commented 5 years ago

people are implicitly agreeing to update

As we broaden our authorship group, which we hope to do, folks will have less familiarity with all the points we have discussed in detail and which are somewhat buried on the website - the website has a lot of info!

Perhaps 'commitment' is a strong word but what about asking authors to state that they understand the expectation that articles will be updated? It would be better to have this out in the open rather than having to initiate an 'abandoned' paper process, in my view.

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

Perhaps we emphasize this aspect by specifying that that the presubmission letter has a section about plans to update?

dmzuckerman commented 5 years ago

Good idea. @davidlmobley ?

davidlmobley commented 5 years ago

Yes, I like this idea; the pre-submission letters should ideally have such a section.

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

OK, suggestion in as a PR #181. Not sure if I struck the right tone or not.

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

PR #181 was merged, closing issue.