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Clarify author metadata check #1318

Closed RMeli closed 6 months ago

RMeli commented 7 months ago

I asked the following on Slack:

Do the metadata on Zenodo need to match the paper exactly? Or the author list of the paper can be a subset of the authors on Zenodo?

and this PR changes the pre-publication steps according to the answers received.

My current understanding is that it is OK if the authors in the archive metadata don't match the authors on the paper as long as all the authors on the paper are included in the metadata (other contributors should be marked as such, if possible, instead of being marked as authors too).