Checklist and Template Repos

[debruine]

Hi @code-check-club/members! How is it almost Septmeber already?

@luizaandrade has drafted an excellent checklist for preparing your code for review in the draft. It would be good to have more than 2 reviewers' eyes on that 👀

It also made me think (and possibly someone suggested previously or has already done?) that it would be good to have some github repos that are forkable templates for organising a project n a way that is helpful for code review. I started working on a basic template for R and quickly realised this will be a challenge. I wanted to use renv to track packages, but documenting how to use it for novices made it seem pretty overwhelming for our target audience. It's based on this template by the Social Science Data Editors, but that one is very overwhelming.

So if anyone wants to work on the basic template for R, more advanced templates that use renv/packrat or docker/containers, or templates for other languages, you can start a repo named template-{language}-{basic/renv/docker}. Probably it's best to get the basic one really clear first, and in line with our code review guide, and then make further versions.