I was recently made aware of how petty, back-stabby, front-stabby, cliquish, in a word "political" the peer review process can be. I thought that peer-review was a rigorous, objective process, but no, it's just an "old boys" network once again.
I found that out while in medical residency and fellowship. 100% political. Has nothing to do with the validity of a study. It is why I left academic medicine.
> JOSS uses the github issue tracker and pull request system to write all reviews for the submitted paper describing the software that was developed
Github is not a good choice for the free and open-source software. It's owned by Microsoft known for its outrageous privacy practices [0]. Github also prevents people from anonymously reading and contributing [1] and so on.
