[GRASS-PSC] GRASS DOI

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 4:39 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> The current one looks messy. That is true. However, is it wrong? Or, in what way is it wrong?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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