Submission form for papers

[sullivantj]

Would it be possible to add a public or semi-public submission form for literature items to be added to the literature database, possibly after admin moderation?

[mmahsereci]

Thanks @sullivantj for moving this to the Issues. I like the idea in general to have a streamlined way to add papers subject to a review. One option I could see to realize this is to add an Issue template which requests the bibfile entry as well as the research area (possibly from a pre-defined set, e.g., [quadrature, linalg, ..] as they appear on the webpage currently). Then, once a conclusion is reached in the Issue discussion if the paper will be included, a follow-up PR is pretty straightforward. Any thoughts on this @philipphennig , @christopheroates @JonathanWenger ?

[christopheroates]

Hmm... how about having a form for anyone to submit work to a central bib file, but then a moderator tags it (e.g. as #quadrature) and the tags determine what actually gets displayed on the website? I'm thinking that we might want to have some editorial control, without appearing to be a closed community either.

[JonathanWenger]

To me the functionality for a public request form already exists in the form of pull requests! If we document this appropriately it is as simple as clicking in the browser a few times to create a fork and paste your bibtex entry into the appropriate file. All of this can be done in the browser and with only the bibtex string available. That way everyone with sufficient rights has moderation control (via pull request approval). We can even handle the tagging in this way by reviewing the PR or directly editing the bibtex entry in the PR.

This will be even more straightforward once the new probabilistic numerics site is up and running, since then @sullivantj, @christopheroates, @philipphennig and others can have the appropriate rights to approve changes to the literature database themselves as well!

[mmahsereci]

It seems that we require a different realization depending on if we want to have the editorial decision public or not (there are pros and cons for either). If we don't want a public editorial decision, then GitHub Issues or PRs are less suitable as "submission places", if we do, then they are great.