[GRASS-PSC] Preservation of Spearfish data set on Zenodo

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 3:27 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 09:02, Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:
...
>> For GRASS 5.x there are three distinct versions for the Spearfish dataset according to https://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/
>>
>> spearfish_grass60data-0.1.tar.gz
>> spearfish_grass60data-0.3.tar.gz
>> spearfish_grass60data.tar.gz
>>
>> Both archives "0.1" and "0.3" have the same filesize, while "grass60data" is slightly smaller.
>>
>> Should all three versions be preserved and versioned by DOI ?
>
> Seems like pre-releases, while now we do have DOIs for RCs, there is no need in general to have DOI for a version
> meant for testing only. Back then, the 0.1 and 0.3 might have been around for a long time (I don't know), but from
> today's perspective, that's all forgotten. 6.0 is a long time ago (no date on our Trac website [1] and a broken link).
>
> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release

Took a bit but I have now added all missing release dates + fixed the
broken links (GRASS 4, 5, 6).

Enjoy,
Markus


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