Software collaborations tend to end poorly in Academia from my experience. This is due to most of the day to day boring software work being viewed as "less tha

Software collaborations tend to end poorly in Academia from my experience. This is due to most of the day to day boring software work being viewed as "less than" the sexy publishable research. What this means is that academic software projects become spaghetti code messes that no one wants to touch at warp speed.