[ska]

There is plausibly an easy enough solution for this, if the grant structure allows/encourages departments hiring developers to help with this. If your primary source of labor for this is short term grad students with no expertise in software development, and not training mechanism, the results are predictable.

Another thing that works against this is a lack of academic credit for doing,overseeing, or steering the work. This also could change.

Changing the incentives can easily change the results.

[webmaven]

> Another thing that works against this is a lack of academic credit for doing,overseeing, or steering the work. This also could change.

> Changing the incentives can easily change the results.

Arguably, besides the PI (Principal Investigator) listed on a paper, you should also list a Principal Engineer.