[Dune] Release notes as publications

[Oliver Sander]

A lot of people that are very active nowadays in Dune development were not
around when the original dune-grid papers were written.  Having something
new to cite would allow them to get some credit for their work.

Am 19.07.2015 um 21:08 schrieb 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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