cookiecutter?

[rowanc1]

I wonder if this might be helpful to integrate with cookie cutter? They have a good command line interface to get you started. Could also be useful to tie into that ecosystem?

https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

[leouieda]

I actually started doing that in #4 but gave up in the end. It's good for automatically filling in some fields but it also raises the barrier to entry (people have to learn a new tool just to get started). I ended up going with a simpler template for now. But I'm open to trying it out again the future. It would help to have a paper-template-sample repository generated by the cookiecutter. It would serve the same purpose as the current repository.

[rowanc1]

Ah, good point. That is cool, have the template and the cookie cutter. One auto generated from the other?

[leouieda]

Yeah, it could be done automatically by TravisCI