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Adds explicit statement of need to review checklist #862

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The item for statement of need in the review checklist does not reflect our explicit requirement to have this section, so this add it

The item for statement of need in the review checklist does not reflect our [explicit requirement](https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#submission-requirements) to have this section, so this add it
adds explicit statement of need mention to the review checklist in docs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Below is an example of the review checklist for the [Yellowbrick JOSS submission

### Documentation

- **A statement of need:** Do the authors clearly state what problems the software is designed to solve and who the target audience is?
- **A statement of need:** Do the authors have a Statement of Need that clearly states what problems the software is designed to solve and who the target audience is?
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Should it be yet more specific as in "Do the authors have a section entitled Statement of Need..." since that is what exactly is checked for?

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I agree with @kthyng here. I think we should make this even more explicit.

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Works for me!

kyleniemeyer and others added 2 commits February 3, 2021 13:58
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Co-authored-by: Arfon Smith <arfon@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-authored-by: Arfon Smith <arfon@users.noreply.github.com>
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I've adopted those changes to make the language even more explicit

@arfon arfon merged commit d03bf1e into master Feb 5, 2021
@arfon arfon deleted the kyleniemeyer-patch-1 branch February 5, 2021 08:50
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