HERMES is a language-independent set of tools and practices to help you implement "continuous software publishing", creating publications from your software automatically.
A software publication is about creating a publication about the entity the software represents. The software becomes a citable entity, referable in yours and others publications. Furthermore, Software publications promotes
- sustainability (what again?)
- reproducibility (I used release/commit xyz for process abc)
- academic credit (especially if your software is not primary subject of publications, created using it)
- fair for research software (FAIR4RS) principles
State of the art of SP works by bridging GitHub with Zenodo and providing several meatadata you wll be able to automatically create a publcation on Zenodo. This "pull based workflow" is limited by certain factors: code must be accessible, less control over extracted metadata, dependent on single service (Zenodo).
HERMES turns this process upside-down by integrating software publication into your CI/CD pipelines where you define the events, the targets and the scope for your software publication.
The workflow is described in detail in the hermes-hmc/workflow repository.
An example configuration can be viewed in the hermes-hmc/showcase repository.
