Mark Padgham: Building the Machinery of Software Peer Review

Mark Padgham is leaving rOpenSci at the end of October, and we want to take this moment to recognize his impact and say thank you for helping to shape rOpenSci.

Mark joined rOpenSci as a staff member in December 2019 to help us expand software peer review to statistical topics. However, Mark’s impact on rOpenSci has gone far beyond this one project. Mark has not only shaped how rOpenSci reviews statistical software, but has also built much of the tooling that supports the peer review processes, and R packages which …