Name: Keynote: How Your Code Might Get Rusty, And What You Can Do About This - Maëlle Salmon, rOpenSci & cynkra
Start: 2024-07-10T09:20:00+0200
End: 2024-07-10T10:20:00+0200

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8 - 11 July, 2024
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Wednesday July 10, 2024 09:20 - 10:20 CEST

Salzburg I + II

Do you ever find yourself working on a codebase that has gotten a bit rusty over time? Or read an old script and have trouble understanding what it does?

It happens to me regularly, be it code that I wrote myself, or code I was tasked with, such as the established igraph R package. In this talk, I share some of my strategies to suffer less when renovating a codebase, as well as prevention ideas to make future renovations less likely, or easier.

I also discuss the human challenges of software maintenance, based on observations of the federation of maintainers that we try to nurture at rOpenSci.

Speakers

Maëlle Salmon

R(esearch) Software Engineer & Blogger, rOpenSci, cynkra

Maëlle Salmon, with a PhD in statistics, is a Research Software Engineer and blogger. At rOpenSci, she maintains the guide “rOpenSci Packages: Development, Maintenance, and Peer Review,” and has developed the babeldown and babelquarto packages for multilingual documents. At cynkra... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2024 09:20 - 10:20 CEST
Salzburg I + II

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