audb.publish() should raise error if author is missing about audb

[hagenw]

There might be cases where license is not that easy or a hurdle (if you only publish locally for yourself), so I changed the issue to only require author.

[frankenjoe]

only require author.

I had one database lately where no one could tell me who the author was :)

[hagenw]

only require author.

I had one database lately where no one could tell me who the author was :)

You can always state something like 'unknown' to indicate this.

But the other problem is that author is also not self-explaining as it could refer to the original authors of the database or to the person publishing with audb.publish(). I'm not sure yet how to handle this.

[frankenjoe]

But the other problem is that author is also not self-explaining as it could refer to the original authors of the database or to the person publishing with audb.publish(). I'm not sure yet how to handle this.

Yes, before we had maintainer (handled by Gradle) and it was somehow clear that this would be the person who publishes the database. But author is indeed not very specific.

[hagenw]

OK, so maybe the easiest solution would then be to not force the author entry and say that author should be the original author of the database.

In our internal database overview list we could add entries for who and when published the data on Artifactory, by getting this info directly from Artifactory (I hope that works ;) ).
Would that make sense?

[frankenjoe]

In our internal database overview list we could add entries for who and when published the data on Artifactory, by getting this info directly from Artifactory (I hope that works ;) ).
Would that make sense?

Yes I think that would be good!

[hagenw]

OK, I will close this issue.