Make Bevy Citable

[alexk101]

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?

We are developing some applications to use in our research and would like to be able to cite Bevy and its very helpful contributors :).

What solution would you like?

Github Citation
Persistent Identifier

Creating a DOI with zenodo will require approval from the owner of the org from what I understand.

What alternative(s) have you considered?

You could publish a paper I guess? Creating a DOI and adding a citation file in the repo seems more appropriate.

[pkupper]

Potentially relevant: #8098

[alexk101]

@pkupper

Thanks. Hadn't seen this before. Will also add this #8098 (comment). Looks like this would be pretty simple then. Just need to add the Citation.cff.

[alexk101]

Looking at this more, this may not be as simple as I would have thought. Adding a CITATION.cff is nice, since it converts between citation formats, but it doesn't nicely parse some things like the author Bevy Contributors for APA. It would also need to have fields like the version updated from time to time, though that is fairly trivial with some CD.

It would be nice to have this file and then Github can automatically generate citations. I am not sure what the opinion is given this prior discussion in #8098 .

[alice-i-cecile]

This has come up a few times now; I'm happy to champion this if y'all can come up with a good solution that meets your needs :)