> Perhaps depositing a VM with everything ready to run.
Yes, this is hugely important. We need clearer requirements for what constitutes properly 'published' data, code and methods. It should include all raw data (both used and discarded) as well as complete snapshots of each preliminary and intermediate processing step in a time-stamped chronology.
This is an area where the expertise and best practices of software development, documentation and source control could help inform standards and tooling which would dramatically improve the quality of scientific publishing and replication.
Yes, this is hugely important. We need clearer requirements for what constitutes properly 'published' data, code and methods. It should include all raw data (both used and discarded) as well as complete snapshots of each preliminary and intermediate processing step in a time-stamped chronology.
This is an area where the expertise and best practices of software development, documentation and source control could help inform standards and tooling which would dramatically improve the quality of scientific publishing and replication.