How to encourage and ensure software maintenance gets sufficiently funded

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Bagpuss - CI2-CW21 Participants Sorrel Harriet (Chair) Teri Forey (Scribe) Diego Alonso Álvarez Heather Turner Alexander Konovalov Ilian Todorov Ideas: _Tool or mechanism to add comments to code, or annotating the code with feedback without creating a pull request. Better space to provide guidance. _ _Nothing wrong with paired programming or code review, but it’s synchronous (have to find time that’s convenient to everyone). If it’s in a document there’s no easy way to link it to the line of code....

5 min · 1034 words · Sorrel Harriet, Teri Forey, Diego Alonso-Álvarez, Heather Turner, Alexander Konovalov, Ilian Todorov

Interoperability & Continuous Integration

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 Interoperability & Continuous Integration - DSR2-CW2CC Reporter Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran - University of Oxford, http://agbeltran.github.io/,twitter: @alegonbel alejandra.gonzalez.beltran@gmail.com Participants Kirstie Whitaker, Alan Turing Institute, https://whitakerlab.github.io, twitter: @kirstie_j, kwhitaker@turing.ac.uk Mosè Giordano, UCL, https://giordano.github.io, Twitter: @MoseGiordano Richard Gilham (Met Office) richard.gilham@metoffice.gov.uk Aleksandra Nenadic, The Software Sustainability Institute, a.nenadic@manchester.ac.uk Alexander Konovalov, University of St Andrews, alexander.konovalov@st-andrews.ac.uk Adrian Castravete, figshare, adrian@figshare.com Notes from the discussion Please use the area below to capture notes from the discussion session....

9 min · 1908 words · Kirstie Whitaker, Mosè Giordano, Richard Gilham, Aleksandra Nenadic, Alexander Konovalov, Adrian Castravete

RSE Careers

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 collab_ideas_group_5 - CI10-CW2CC Reporter Sarah Gibson - sgibson@turing.ac.uk Participants Jason M. Gates, Joanna Leng, Catherine Smith, Sarah Gibson, Colin Sauze, Alexander Konovalov Context / Research Domain RSE Careers Problem HERA (Higher Education Role Analysis) is a tool which is used to analyse roles found in Higher Education institutions (see http://www.ecc.ac.uk/about-us/ for further information). They were written about 15 years ago. While there were subsequent changes to REF procedures, and RSEs did not exist at the point they were written, the descriptions stay the same....

2 min · 221 words · Jason M. Gates, Joanna Leng, Catherine Smith, Sarah Gibson, Colin Sauze, Alexander Konovalov

SCAT (STEM Career Advising Tool)

Collaborative Ideas for Group A - CI13-CW18 Reporter Mark Woodbridge - m.woodbridge@imperial.ac.uk Participants Mark Woodbridge, Joanna Leng, Alexander Konovalov SCAT (STEM Career Advising Tool) Context / Research Domain There is a persistent and pervasive lack of diversity in STEM Problem Highly capable individuals frequently make education and career choices in the absence of relevant or up-to-date information about the qualifications or skills required for specific roles. Solution Building a course choice modeller which will permit to model how further career path may be influenced by course choices....

1 min · 132 words · Mark Woodbridge, Joanna Leng, Alexander Konovalov

Software reporting guidelines

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 Software reporting guidelines - HP6-CW2CC Hackday Idea Proposer Alexander Konovalov - alexander.konovalov@gmail.com This document should be used to capture the information for a Hack Day Idea. Context / Research Domain Software credit Problem How to find out which research software is developed in an organisation? Solution Universities are using various information systems to record research outputs, mainly for REF purposes, for example:...

2 min · 362 words · Alexander Konovalov