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The Journal of Open Source Software

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Forks: 216
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 121
Avg merge: 30m
Merged PRs (30d): 6

Dominant language: Ruby
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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121 open issues indexed

JOSS app on Postgres 18 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

openjournals/joss#1573 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
list Amsterdam donation on about JOSS page Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

openjournals/joss#1561 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2026
How to add a "current affiliation" as a footnote, not as an official affiliation? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss#1555 · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Instructions for podman Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

openjournals/joss#1552 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Document sublicensing non-CC-BY materials in the paper, and licensing generally Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss#1549 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Code snippets after acceptance - leading zero in DOI breaks links Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

openjournals/joss#1525 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Show date of submission on dashboard Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1508 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Feature request: add repository size statistics to "Software Report" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1479 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 8, 2025
Feature request - Log rejected/withdrawn papers in editor and reviewer stats Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1478 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Paper preprint license requirements Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 70/100

openjournals/joss#1474 · Opened Oct 25, 2025
Editorial bot cannot work across review and pre-review threads Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1469 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Regarding my paper submission before i submit Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1468 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Proposal: accept typst submission Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openjournals/joss#1465 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2025
add information about repeat/related submissions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

openjournals/joss#1452 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Use tokei instead of cloc in editorialbot Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

openjournals/joss#1450 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
Remove newline from "title" of existing (all) records? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1449 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Ampersand in titles not handled properly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1443 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2025
Require citation data as part of a JOSS submission. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1418 · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Handling DOI prefix and suffixes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1417 · Opened Apr 2, 2025
Add Fediverse Creator meta tag to JOSS Paper Page Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1399 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Reviewer checklist vs. JOSS acceptance criteria | (When) Can reviewers recommend rejection? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

openjournals/joss#1395 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Make `Reviewer` model? Open

enhancement:reviewer question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1388 · Opened Nov 1, 2024
add link to "reviewer profile" from joss profile page :) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

openjournals/joss#1387 · Opened Nov 1, 2024
Automated emails for reviewers at the end of a successful review Open

enhancement:reviewer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1386 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2024
[proposal] embed raised issues/PRs in paper page Open

enhancement:editor enhancement:reader enhancement:reviewer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1384 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2024
[proposal] add summary statement to reviewer checklist Open

enhancement:reader enhancement:reviewer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1383 · 12 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2024
LaTeX in article titles isn't properly rendered on home page nor article page Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1382 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2024
Impossible to login in dev environment Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1374 · Opened Oct 11, 2024
[ui] Message to editors placeholder text is awfully long & gets cut off Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1373 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 11, 2024
JOSS and national journal lists Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1352 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2024
discourage backquotes in titles Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1349 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2024
managing EiC on review issue Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

openjournals/joss#1348 · Opened Jun 21, 2024
Better handling of invalid/expired scope query links Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1347 · Opened Jun 19, 2024
issue about cross references Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

openjournals/joss#1340 · 1 comment · Opened May 21, 2024
Have reviews openly listed on Reviewer page Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

openjournals/joss#1337 · 2 reactions · Opened May 3, 2024
Contribution process for JOSS code and policies Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1335 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 17, 2024
More structured recommendations for review issues? Open

enhancement:author enhancement:reviewer question review

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1334 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2024
[proposal]: Use quarto/myst for paper submissions? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1323 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 12, 2024
Track change does not update Managing EiC text Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1311 · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Document that multiple JOSS publications from the same project are possible if substantially different Open

enhancement:author

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1307 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 20, 2024
Repeated DOIs in review Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1300 · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 20, 2023
On the use of LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) in a JOSS submission Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1297 · 12 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2023
Optional examples section in JOSS papers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

openjournals/joss#1285 · Opened Oct 23, 2023
Adding JOSS to Web of Science / Clarivate Open

indexing

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1283 · 67 comments · 28 reactions · Opened Oct 9, 2023
Mermaid diagrams in Markdown-formatted JOSS articles Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1281 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 29, 2023
Ask researchers to cite software they use before allowing publication in JOSS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openjournals/joss#1277 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 19, 2023
Paper builder fails if orcid is slightly malformed Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1275 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2023
Extend documentation 'Reviewing for JOSS' Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openjournals/joss#1258 · Opened Aug 14, 2023
Website suggestion: Provide ability to sort the search results Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openjournals/joss#1248 · Opened Jul 15, 2023
add flowchart figure to docs? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

openjournals/joss#1245 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 13, 2023

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