[Dune] Release notes as publications

[Christian Engwer]

The Deal-II people handle it in a similar way. I'm not sure where they
publish. I like the idea that you give credit to those people involved
in a particular release. On the other hand the question arises how to
cite. Up to now we told people to cite the gird papers, if they use
dune-grid and cite the fem-paper if they use dune-fem and so
on... What will we tell people now?

Let me make this clear. I'm not against this paper, but we have to
carefully decide what we want.

Christian

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Oliver Sander wrote:
> Dear Dune team,
> 
> FEniCS recently released version 1.5 of their software suite.  Their release notes
> are available in form of a short "paper", under
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/fenics-release-notes
> 
> The Archive of Numerical Software
> 
> http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ans/
> 
> is willing to publish such release notes.  That way, they become real journal
> articles.  They can be cited, and people who worked on a particular release
> can get some credit for it.
> 
> Are we motivated to do the same for our upcoming 2.4 release?  I don't think that
> that would be very much work.  Have a look at the FEniCS release notes.  Writing
> something similar would basically mean to pipe our existing release notes into TeX,
> adding a little bit of prose, references, and a few pictures.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best,
> Oliver
> 



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