Hi Peter,
"Peter Löwe" <peter.lo...@gmx.de> schrieb am Mi., 17. Apr. 2019, 12:15: > Hi Markus, hi PSC, > > the reason why I believe we should consider the Zenodo option (for long > term archiving and DOI-based scientific recognition/citation) before making > the switch to GitHub is the DOI versioning capability of Zenodo ( > https://blog.zenodo.org/2017/05/30/doi-versioning-launched/). This is > similar to the mechanism implented for the GRASS module manual pages, where > references from outdated versions point to the current release of the > module (and man page). The DOI-versioning mechanism in Zenodo additionally > implements a version history as a hsitorical sequence of releases. This > means that the DOI version for GRASS 4.2.1 predates GRASS 4.3, which > predates GRASS5.x, etc. etc. and all also point to the latest release. > Yes: each release is a point in time. The GRASS SVN contains the release branches dating back to GRASS 5. In > addition there are tarballs from the GRASS 4.x era (-> what about GRASS 3.x > or earlier ?). > Please check our work already done: I have reconstructed the releases back to 3.2 including time stamps at file level. https://github.com/grass-svn2git/grass-legacy Note that the URL will change to OSGeo organization soon. Making all these releases available for scientific citation (and > recognition) through one versioned DOI in the described "timely sequence" > is a more complex task than what's covered in the how-to guides for > GitHub-Zenodo-integration (https://genr.eu/wp/cite/). > We have all branches there, since 1987. I've contacted the Zenodo helpdesk for advice how this should be approached > and will report back ASAP. > > It would be a pity (and waste of ressources) if we make the effort to > create a GitHub repo for GRASS once and then having to redo it because of > some pecularities of the DOI-versioning mechanism. > Still I don't see why we should redo it. Does the new structure not address it? Did you check it? Best, Markus
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