[PRE REVIEW]: IncrementalDebrisFlowVolumeAnalyzer: A Python tool for estimating volumes along a debris flow path

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@laurenguido<!--end-author-handle-- (Lauren Guido) Repository: https://github.com/laurenguido/IncrementalDerisFlowVolumeAnalyzer Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v1.0 Editor: Pending Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Software report:

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    71  Lauren Guido

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1126/science.1128834 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: se...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report....
- No DOI given, and none found for title: df_bulking source code
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Geomorphological controls on post-fire debris flow...

❌ MISSING DOIs

- 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.06.032 may be a valid DOI for title: Fire severity, size, and climate associations dive...
- 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.039 may be a valid DOI for title: Increasing trends in high-severity fire in the sou...
- 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117861 may be a valid DOI for title: Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in ...
- 10.1130/abs/2023am-391198 may be a valid DOI for title: Insights on the growth and mobility of debris flow...

❌ INVALID DOIs

- None

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 480

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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[arfon]

@laurenguido, thanks for your submission to JOSS. I'm afraid this cannot be published here in its current form. In particular, the software is not meeting these submission requirements:

In addition, JOSS requires that software should be feature-complete (i.e., no half-baked solutions), packaged appropriately according to common community standards for the programming language being used (e.g., Python, R), and designed for maintainable extension (not one-off modifications of existing tools). “Minor utility” packages, including “thin” API clients, and single-function packages are not acceptable.

As Python software, our expectation is that this should be presented as a Python package (e.g., PIP installable) rather than a collection of scripts.

As this is a major reworking of this work, I'm going to reject the submission now and encourage a re-submission if you decided to make these changes.

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@editorialbot reject

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Paper rejected.