[PRE REVIEW]: hankl: A lightweight Python implementation of the FFTLog algorithm for Cosmology

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Submitting author: @minaskar (Minas Karamanis) Repository: https://github.com/minaskar/hankl Version: v1.1.0 Editor: Pending Reviewer: Pending Managing EiC: Kevin M. Moerman

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Software report (experimental):

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Statistical information for the repository '2508' was gathered on 2020/07/23.
The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

Author                     Commits    Insertions      Deletions    % of changes
Minas Karamanis                 46         13944            447          100.00

Below are the number of rows from each author that have survived and are still
intact in the current revision:

Author                     Rows      Stability          Age       % in comments
Minas Karamanis           13497           96.8          0.0               17.02

[minaskar]

A few suggestions based on the list of reviewers that you mentioned are: ziotom78, HeloiseS, eschnett

[kthyng]

Hi @minaskar. Thank you for your submission. However, the JOSS editorial board has determined that it does not meet the bar of substantial scholarly effort.

If you continue to develop this work, we would be happy to reconsider it as a submission in the future.

[kthyng]

@whedon reject

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Paper rejected.

[minaskar]

Hi @kthyng thank you for reviewing our work. Could you please elaborate exactly which requirement it does not meet?

According to the docs that you mentioned:

Your software should be a significant contribution to the available open source software that either enables some new research challenges to be addressed or makes addressing research challenges significantly better (e.g., faster, easier, simpler).

hank is almost 500% faster than existing methods, significantly easier to use, and trivially simple to configure. An analysis that would usually take a few hours to complete can be done in a matter of minutes using hankl. Furthermore, the user does not need to extrapolate the transformed function themselves since this is done automatically.

Thank you for your consideration.

Minas

[kthyng]

Hi @minaskar. A JOSS submission needs to be a substantial scholarly effort, as in, the equivalent effort of a traditionally publishable unit in research and/or academics. The link I posted gives guidelines, for example:

Total lines of code (LOC). Submissions under 1000 LOC will usually be flagged, those under 300 LOC will be desk rejected.

Your submission has 321 lines of Python code, which is just above the desk reject level but still very small for a JOSS submission. Note that there are other great ways to publish your software; some are listed here.