When BEPs result in papers, there's some question as to how to provide credit to the BIDS community beyond the contributors to the BEP. The BIDS steering group and maintainers group do important work that enables BEPs, at times including direct contributions to the BEP effort. However, having a list of 6+ (currently 9) mandatory co-authors might be a bit excessive.
We propose the following convention: Each paper should have a member of the maintainers and steering group on it. By default, this should be the lead maintainer (currently @sappelhoff) and the steering group chair (currently @guiomar). If another member of either group takes a significant lead in landing the BEP, then that member would become the representative author for the group. If multiple members of either group put in a significant effort, then the number can be increased.
No particular threshold is proposed for "significant effort" or "significant lead".
If there are no objections, this could go in DECISIONMAKING.md or any other document where it seems appropriate.
cc @bids-standard/steering @bids-standard/bep_leads
When BEPs result in papers, there's some question as to how to provide credit to the BIDS community beyond the contributors to the BEP. The BIDS steering group and maintainers group do important work that enables BEPs, at times including direct contributions to the BEP effort. However, having a list of 6+ (currently 9) mandatory co-authors might be a bit excessive.
We propose the following convention: Each paper should have a member of the maintainers and steering group on it. By default, this should be the lead maintainer (currently @sappelhoff) and the steering group chair (currently @guiomar). If another member of either group takes a significant lead in landing the BEP, then that member would become the representative author for the group. If multiple members of either group put in a significant effort, then the number can be increased.
No particular threshold is proposed for "significant effort" or "significant lead".
If there are no objections, this could go in
DECISIONMAKING.mdor any other document where it seems appropriate.cc @bids-standard/steering @bids-standard/bep_leads