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Some good basic suggestions that should be followed when doing softwaare engineering. But they forgot one aspect:

Don't be too smart for your own sake when packaging your software. As an HPC administrator I stopped counting how many hours I spent installing scientific software with broken Makefiles, interactive installers, simple github dumps, unresolvable dependencies. Sadly this is quite prevelant in life sciences (I am looking at you bioconductor)