Category:Howtos

One of the greatest dangers in any project is that people do not know how to reproduce the work already done, and it is effectively lost. Yet reproducibility is the first requirement of science! Please:

• Keep it simple. It's not the complete documentation, it's just a Howto.
• Give minimal information needed to reproduce building the code and running it on a particular problem. It's OK to refer to specific README files in the source code, no need to repeat the info there but it must be clear how to get to it.
• Include links to the code and data repositores, and to the documentation.
• Make sure to note versions with which it all worked, such as git commit hash or Subversion tag for source codes, the date and some checksum (sum, md5sum) for data files, and versions of the operating system, compilers, and libraries.
• Include some pictures and results.
• Update the page as the codes and data change. If someone is interested in an older version, they can always retrieve the history of the page.

Thanks!