You could definitely do the private thing on Gitlab, but if I were going to
do something like this I would go with completely open review.

The push journal sounds similar, where submissions were managed by GitHub

http://push.cwcon.org

Robert

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 6:22 PM Noam Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

> We've been running rOpenSc package submissions in a similar way for a
> couple of years and JOSS's process is derived from ours.  The main
> difference is (1) reviews are not anonymous, but public, so no temporary
> accounts are created or needed, and (2) in our case the author's repo is
> merged in after acceptance, in JOSS's case the repo is never merged in, but
> the paper (a markdown file), is extracted from the repo and compiled by a
> bot.
>
> I think the workflow you describe could be enabled by a bot similar to
> JOSS's *wheedon* bot, which could extract a paper, submit it to a
> *private* repository and start a review chain.  I'm not sure how to
> enable anonymous accounts.  If every paper was a private repository within
> an organization, then you could limit access to just the reviewers, and
> then extract the content to show the author. This wouldn't allow them to
> respond in the thread, though.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:04 PM Damien Irving <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I'm pretty sure that the Journal of Open Source Software runs its entire
> review process through GitHub. (Although I'm not sure how many of your dot
> points their process covers.)
> http://joss.theoj.org/
>
> There are a number of Software Carpentry people involved with that journal.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Damien
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Greg Wilson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was speaking with a colleague last week about the possibility of using
> GitHub to manage paper submissions and reviews.  The journal in question
> doesn't do open/accredited reviews, so I was wondering if anyone had any
> experience with the following workflow:
>
> - author submits paper by sending URL of public GitHub repo to journal
>
> - journal creates private repo and merges author's submission into
>
> - journal creates temporary accounts with auto-generated names for
> reviewers and gives them access to the newly-created private repo
>
> - reviewers post comments: authors and editors can see them/respond to
> them, but identities of reviewers are known only to editors
>
> - authors make changes in the private repo in response to reviewers'
> comments, and merge from that to their public repo when they want to
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
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> Director of Instructor Training
> Software Carpentry Foundation
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