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CITATION.cff carries no version or date-released #51

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@maehr

Found while reviewing #4, which publishes v0.1.0 as "the first citable baseline".

CITATION.cff has no version: and no date-released: key. The only version-shaped field in it is cff-version: 1.2.0, which is the CFF format version, not the software version.

The maintainer release checklist in CONTRIBUTING.md bumps package.json and regenerates CHANGELOG.md, but nothing updates the citation metadata — so anyone citing TextRefs from CITATION.cff, and the Zenodo deposit that reads it, gets a record with no version string and no release date.

For a project whose entire subject is citable, persistent identity, that is a conspicuous gap.

Fix:

  • add version: 0.1.0 and date-released: <tag date> to CITATION.cff
  • add both to the release checklist alongside the package.json bump, so they cannot drift again

Related: the checklist step 7 ("fill the concept DOI into CITATION.cff identifiers:") already anticipates touching this file after the first release — the identifiers: block is currently commented out.

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