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The author describes how the open GitHub-based review process differed from closed academic peer review, and shares their experience mentoring Sunny Tseng in building bbsTaiwan, an R package for accessing Taiwan's Breeding Bird Survey data. The post reflects on how rOpenSci's initiatives are designed not just to improve software quality but to build community around open science. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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