Hello,
I am pleased to announce that our analysis of motivation to publish OSH is out: https://doi.org/10.5206/joh.v10i1.23082
In this paper, we question what research hardware engineers would expect from a review and publication system dedicated to research hardware, and their putative motivation to publish in such a venue.
I think it is a good base to develop new publication/quality control systems for OSH, which would not be based on the publication system that was built for narrative papers.
Happy to discuss the matter here!
Note: sorry for the format of the paper, I reached out to the editors in hope this can be fixed.