Re: [matplotlib-devel] getting a DOI for v1.4.0

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

In case you weren't already thinking of this, we might want to update this
page:
http://matplotlib.org/citing.html


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...> wrote:

> Thanks! This hasn't been done yet because I was confused by zenodo and
> hadn't taken the tune to sort this out.
>
> Tom
> On Aug 26, 2014 4:54 PM, "Nathaniel Smith" <nj...@po...> wrote:
>
>>  On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > Github has made it possible to get a DOI for a release (
>> > https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ ).
>> >
>> > I am inclined to do this for 1.4.0.  I think doing this is a good
>> > first step towards being good (leading?) citizens in the reproducible
>> > science community.
>>
>> FYI, since I just spent half an hour figuring this out:
>>
>> To use the Zenodo magic DOI feature you have to:
>>
>> 1) Attach Zenodo to the repository like it says in the tutorial.
>>
>> 2) Create a "release" on github, which is *not* the same as a tag,
>> even though the github UI claims that they are identical. See all of
>> these releases that are listed on your github releases page?
>>     https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/releases
>> None of them are actually releases in the sense that Zenodo wants.
>>
>> Here's an example of what it looks like after you've made Zenodo happy:
>>     https://github.com/pydata/patsy/releases
>>
>> The trick is to click "draft a new release", and then type in the name
>> of your existing tag. You can add some release notes if desired, which
>> will be copied to the archived Zenodo page, which will look like this:
>>    https://zenodo.org/record/11445
>> (The text "See release notes: <url>" is what I typed into the Github
>> release description box.) And then click "Publish release" obviously.
>> This will convert your existing release tag into an *extra-special*
>> release tag, which AFAICT works the same as before except that (a) it
>> gets snazzier graphics in the github UI, and (b) Zenodo will archive
>> it.
>>
>> -n
>>
>> --
>> Nathaniel J. Smith
>> Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh
>> http://vorpus.org
>>
>
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