On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 4:39 PM Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Helena and all, > > Yes, it is auto-generated by Zenodo. It was the first step - to get a DOI > (main one and one for each release). Now we need to decide what is right for > the authors list. > > The current one looks messy. That is true. However, is it wrong? Or, in what > way is it wrong? > > GitHub handles might be appropriate when that's all people choose to reveal > on GitHub, although it looks wrong in academia. However, looking at the list, > it is likely that some people just never came around to adding their name to > GitHub (while having it in the source code). Some others have just part of > their name, all-caps name, and yet some others have their name in two > languages. > > Author order is derived from GitHub > Insights > Contributors [1] which is > mostly good from a software maintenance perspective (recency and line > volume). How well it represents the order of contributors in terms of credit > is a question related to the whole "academic credit for software" debate. The > whole auto-generated list can be in this case replaced by a CITATION.cff file > which Zenodo will now pick up and use. > > Action item 1: Add or improve your name on GitHub. Use whatever you would use > when authoring a paper or a book. This name may also show in your commits. > See also what `git config --get user.name` gives you. > > Action item 2: See where you are in the list or if you are even there. > Discuss on the grass-dev mailing list or complain to me privately how to > better represent your contribution. > > I would be happy to discuss other ideas people have. Just let me know, e.g., > on grass-dev.
FYI: GDAL started just today to generate a Zenodo entry. Even took the top 16 commiters [3] according to GitHub and created a .zenodo.json file to control authorship: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/5101/files Perhaps interesting for us as well. Best, Markus [3] Even's email on the matter: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2022-January/055236.html > Best, > Vaclav > > [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/graphs/contributors > [2] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030 _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
