[Dune] Release notes as publications

[Christian Engwer]

There is also a different option. zenondo (a cern initiative) allows
to make software version citable. You upload a tar.ball with the
release version and add a list of authors. Then you get a DOI and can
cite the particular software version.

Perhaps this would make it clearer that there is the paper with the
concepts and the particular implementation.

Christian

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:41:51PM +0200, Markus Blatt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Oliver Sander wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, but I have to say this:
> Depending on how the contributors/authors are chosen, this sounds like
> a way to manipulate your h-index or whatever is used to measure your
> academic performance. All this sounds a bit fishy to me.
> 
> Having said that:
> But as I am not an academic I do not care too much about
> whether this is fraudulent or not ;).
> 
> What does excite me about cited releases is the fact that this seems
> to be a nice incentive for contributors and might even increase the
> number of contributions from people that are not part of the core
> developer team and its colleagues.
> 
> The really difficult question is how are the authors chosen? I know
> that for dealii theses are always just the current core
> developers. This is not an option for me as this neglects considerable
> contributions from outside.
> 
> Listing all contributors between two releases neglects previous
> contributors and even inventors of the software. Listing all
> contributors up to a release data might be a very long list and it
> will be hard to find the current institutions of all of them. In
> addition I consider it good style to ask people whether the want to
> appear on a publication or not. (I am surprised that I am listed as an
> author on some publication that I never had a chance to review or even
> comment on.)
> 
> Seems like a big discussion for the developer meeting to me.
> 
> My peronal favorite is to list for every major release all
> contributors after the last release with the release managers upfront
> as primary authors.
> 
> Markus
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