What's Changed
- Renamed the course to "Building Better Research Software"
- Framed FAIR in the context of building better research software for reproducible research, see #185 but moved away from being a FAIR RS course
- Added various instructor notes, callouts, extra exercises, code examples and content (e.g. introducing GitHub issues early on)
- Updated started and ending code states and the accompanying software project
- Moved FAIR discussion and CI to extras
New Contributors
- @warrickball made their first contribution in #285
- @ndporter made their first contribution in #299
- @phillybroadbent made their first contribution in #311
- @katrinabrock made their first contribution in #315
- @steve-crouch made their first contribution in #336
Special Acknowledgements
Special thanks to @tobyhodges for initiating the change behind this release and @sstevens2 for her contributions to the material and organising and running the pilot workshop at UW-Wisconsin in August 2025 without the help of the lesson development team.
Full Changelog: beta-July2025...beta-Dec2025
Contributors
steve-crouch, sstevens2, and 5 other contributors