Supplement ci material with clearer guidance

[steve-crouch]

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🤖 This automated message can help you check the rendered files in your submission for clarity. If you have any questions, please feel free to open an issue in {sandpaper}.

If you have files that automatically render output (e.g. R Markdown), then you should check for the following:

• 🎯 correct output
• 🖼️ correct figures
• ❓ new warnings
• ‼️ new errors

Rendered Changes

🔍 Inspect the changes: https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/better-research-software/compare/md-outputs..md-outputs-PR-336

The following changes were observed in the rendered markdown documents:

 AUTHORS.md        |   1 +
 ci-for-testing.md | 314 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 md5sum.txt        |   5 +-
 3 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

What does this mean?

If you have source files that require output and figures to be generated (e.g. R Markdown), then it is important to make sure the generated figures and output are reproducible.

This output provides a way for you to inspect the output in a diff-friendly manner so that it's easy to see the changes that occur due to new software versions or randomisation.

⏱️ Updated at 2025-11-21 16:01:45 +0000

[anenadic]

Thank you @steve-crouch.