[Python-ideas] Add citation() to site.py

[Steve Dower]

On 17Mar2016 1335, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 03/17/2016 01:32 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
>  > One way to think about it is that providing a preferred citation is
>  > useful for folks who want to cite, and folks who don't want to cite
>  > will ignore it.
>
> I would also think that citing the software increases the ease of
> duplicating the results.

Afraid not. Posting a requirements.txt or a conda spec file would be far 
more valuable for this, or these days sharing a Jupyter Notebook with 
the code and dependency-spec embedded.

It's also arguable as to how valuable reproducing the results in an 
identical environment actually is. Yes, your code runs on a different 
machine, but if your "research" is code then you are a developer, not a 
scientist. Someone actually needs to implement the idea in a different 
environment (and ideally they know just how it differs) to demonstrate 
that it is an actual result and not just a fluke.

Cheers,
Steve