Comparisons of Julia w/ other languages often say one disadvantage of Julia is that it has fewer 3rd party packages. I tend to disagree. Julia doesn’t need more packages, it needs better packages (w/ more functionality). For example, two recent posts about time-series ( here ) & ( here ) highlight the…

I see. These, and more especially the last one, are some fair points that I haven’t considered, mostly because I’ve never worked in corporate settings.

I actually work in science research (ecology) in a small org that needs to win contracts. Recognition can be useful for that.

[image] Raf: When a package is in a private organizations page, they are quite clearly credited as the creators of it. Normally yes, but it does not need be like that. We are talking about free software, so you are allowed to create a repo on your private page with code that is completely mad…

Cmon, we are talking about the actual registered julia package, with github stars, forks, etc. It has multiple references to establish legitimacy, and it does matter.

I think there’s been some good discussion here but it’s difficult to make any progress with so many different problems that are trying to be solved at once. If people have a single thing that’s been identified that they care about it may be helpful to have a dedicated thread or raise and issue in th…

[image] heliosdrm: Normally yes, but it does not need be like that. We are talking about free software, so you are allowed to create a repo on your private page with code that is completely made by another person. The repository name is not useful to acknowledge authorship in that case. How c…

To add to the discussion on GitHub organizations, evidence indicates that that they do not always improve discoverability of packages. I personally never search packages based on organizations. I do Google search or use https://pkg.julialang.org search. However, these organizations may boost the cre…

And another link on how to organize contributions via the concept of contributorship, which is becoming popular in journals: Publications | Free Full-Text | Contributorship, Not Authorship: Use CRediT to Indicate Who Did What | HTML

Github organizations cannot be followed on github. It often bothers me that I can’t follow a github organization to see when new packages are created.

How can we create a leaner ecosystem for Julia?

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Linking other example of package that could possibly be merged into existing efforts had the authors agreed on a generalized interface: Diagonalizations.jl: a package for multivariate linear filtering

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