[PRE REVIEW]: Million Points of Light (MPoL): a PyTorch library for radio interferometric imaging and inference

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Submitting author: @iancze (Ian Czekala)
Repository: https://github.com/MPoL-dev/MPoL
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Version: v0.3.0-alpha
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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

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- 10.3847/2041-8213/aaf741 is OK
- 10.1088/1538-3873/ac9642 is OK
- 10.1088/1538-3873/acdf84 is OK
- 10.21105/astro.2302.05163 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-3881/ab40a7 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/ad41df is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2305.09121 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2311.18012 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/staa1365 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0ec7 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e85 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/ac0f83 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/aac6dc is OK
- 10.1146/annurev-astro-031220-010302 is OK
- 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2021005 is OK
- 10.1146/annurev.aa.24.090186.001015 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ad84df is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-319-44431-4 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2009.04345 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.1912.01703 is OK
- 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2020572 is OK
- 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.1711.05101 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/sty409 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/aaedae is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2311.18012 is OK
- 10.3847/2041-8213/aaf7a0 is OK
- 10.1086/670067 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201016082 is OK
- 10.1088/1538-3873/ace216 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stac1285 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201323094 is OK

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- No DOI given, and none found for title: Aperture Synthesis with a Non-Regular Distribution...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: An efficient implementation of the algorithm ’CLEA...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: CASA Architecture and Applications
- No DOI given, and none found for title: TorchKbNufft: A High-Level, Hardware-Agnostic Non-...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Essential Radio Astronomy
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- No DOI given, and none found for title: Pyro: deep universal probabilistic programming
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- 10.1201/b10905-6 may be a valid DOI for title: MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics
- 10.1051/aas:1996146 may be a valid DOI for title: Understanding radio polarimetry. I. Mathematical f...

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   645	Ian Czekala
   553	Jeff Jennings
    44	Kadri Nizam
    35	Hannah Grzybowski
    25	trq5014
    23	RCF42
    19	Tyler Quinn
     8	briannazawadzki
     3	tquinn39
     2	Brianna Zawadzki

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Paper file info:

⚠️ Wordcount for paper.md is 1559

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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[warrickball]

Hi @iancze, thanks for your submission to JOSS. While co-publication in other journals doesn't necessarily rule out a publication in JOSS, the 2023 PASP article does make repeated and specific reference to MPoL, so I'm going to ask the editorial board to consider whether the implementation of the software itself reflects a sufficient substantial scientific effort for JOSS's purposes. This review should take a week or two. Sorry for the additional wait!

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[warrickball]

@iancze — There was enough support on the editorial board that I'm happy to continue with this submission. I'll note also that it looks like about 1600 lines of code have been added to the package since the PASP paper was published.

That said, all the suitable JOSS editors are currently working at capacity so I'm going to "waitlist" this review until an editor with the relevant expertise is available to take it on. Thanks for your continuing patience!