Define best practises that we're looking for

[npscience]

Can we generate a simple list of best practises we're looking for? We're interested to investigate examples in the eLife corpus.

My starting list, for feedback and discussion:

• code is shared by researcher via a repository
• this repo URL still resolves
  and in this repo:
• license is defined
• citation file
• readme
• contributing guidelines [is this an optional extra?]
• evidence that code has been reviewed / outputs have been reproduced [is this a next step best practise for research code?]
• test coverage ??
• commenting coverage ?? [how else to measure how well-documented the code is?]
  plus:
• archived deposit that relates to version of record publication --> particularly if original repo URL no longer resolves