Welcome to QuiViRR on GitHub

This is a living archive/workspace complementary to the QuiViRR journal website.

What content can you find here?

On QuiViRR@GitHub, you will find a smaller selection of articles that are submitted to QuiViRR for review as well as some published articles. Articles may have pre- and/or post-publication comments or be under peer review. The changes to article content are natively tracked using what is called 'version control'. The official publication (and its versions) always resides on the OJS website, whereas if there is tracked content, then it is also placed on GitHub in its own public repository. A list of article repositories is available.

How can I discuss with the journal editors, article author(s) and the community?

If you have a GitHub account, you can take part in multi-threaded discussions for each hosted article and for the help guide. For example, you can discuss this help guide to QuiViRR on GitHub. You can also discuss specific articles, which are published in the QuiViRR journal, but also hosted dynamically on GitHub, eg. the Enhanced Data Sessions paper by Paul McIlvenny. You can read earlier posts and respond to them directly by commenting, or you can start a new discussion. If you do not have a GitHub account, then you can only read earlier posts by other contributors.

How can I create an issue for an article and comment on an existing issue?

If you have a GitHub account, you can create an Issue in GitHub using the New issue button (under Issues). Give as much information when you write your issue as possible to help the author(s) and editors. Note that only the author(s) and editors can assign labels, assignees, project boards and milestones.

Issues will be placed on the Project board for the article in question (under Projects). This takes the form of what is called a 'kanban board' that makes visible to everyone the current work-in-progress under the headings To Do, In Focus, In Progress, and Done. Note, however, that only the author(s) and editors can move 'issues' from one column to another on the Project board.

You can comment on an issue that has already been created, including your own. Comments are listed in order of ascending date.

How to make a pull request for suggesting changes to an article?

If you wish to suggest an explicit change to the text of an article (in Markdown style, for example), then you can click on the edit pencil for the specific file, and GitHub will guide you through the process to make an instant Pull request.

You can also Fork the article's repository to your own account, make a change, commit and then make a Pull request to the original repository. This requires more familiarity with GitHub and the Pull request workflow.

How can I view previous releases (versions) of an article?

All official versions of a published article hosted on GitHub will be archived on the QuiViRR journal website. Note that the GitHub repository for the article may have more frequent Releases than versions on the journal website. Releases and tags are listed in reverse chronological order (under Releases).

How can I view earlier changes to the article in a precise manner?

If you look at the Commit history for an article hosted on GitHub, then you can easily view early revisions that the author(s) and/or editor have made. Simply click on the commit that interests you and the precise line changes become visible in colour, as what is called a Diff. Alternatively, the history of revisions let's you browse all the files of the selected Commit.

If you view a selected file, then you will be able to see a more detailed history of that file with Blame. This allows you to navigate earlier changes made to the file using Diff.