Zenodo fix

.github/workflows/publish-pypi.yml

@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ jobs:
           verbose: true
           skip-existing: true
 
+  # NOTE: Publishing this release is what triggers the Zenodo archive. Zenodo's
+  # GitHub integration webhooks the 'release: published' event and mints a new
+  # version under the concept DOI in CITATION.cff -- no job, token, or API call
+  # of ours is involved. The integration only sees releases published *after* it
+  # was enabled, so it never backfills.
   publish-github-release:
     name: Publish GitHub release
     needs: publish-pypi
@@ -133,52 +138,3 @@ jobs:
         uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v3
         with:
           generate_release_notes: true
-
-  # publish-zenodo:
-  #   name: Publish Zenodo release
-  #   needs: publish-github-release
-  #   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-  #   if: github.event_name == 'push'
-  #   permissions:
-  #     contents: read
-  #   env:
-  #     ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ZENODO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-  #   steps:
-  #     - uses: actions/checkout@v7
-  #       with:
-  #         fetch-depth: 0
-  #
-  #     - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
-  #       with:
-  #         python-version: "3.12"
-  #
-  #     - name: Install release tooling
-  #       run: |
-  #         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-  #         python -m pip install PyYAML
-  #       shell: bash
-  #
-  #     - name: Download artifacts
-  #       uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
-  #       with:
-  #         name: dist-${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_number }}
-  #         path: dist
-  #
-  #     - name: Generate release citation metadata
-  #       run: |
-  #         python tools/release/sync_citation.py \
-  #           --tag "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" \
-  #           --output "${RUNNER_TEMP}/CITATION.cff"
-  #       shell: bash
-  #
-  #     - name: Check tree stayed clean
-  #       run: |
-  #         git diff --quiet || (git status --short && git diff && exit 1)
-  #       shell: bash
-  #
-  #     - name: Publish to Zenodo
-  #       run: |
-  #         python tools/release/publish_zenodo.py \
-  #           --dist-dir dist \
-  #           --citation-file "${RUNNER_TEMP}/CITATION.cff"
-  #       shell: bash

CITATION.cff

@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@ authors:
   - family-names: "Becker"
     given-names: "Matthew R."
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7774-2246"
-date-released: "2026-03-30"
-version: "2.1.5"
+# NOTE: Deliberately no 'version' or 'date-released'. The package version comes
+# from the git tag via setuptools_scm, and Zenodo's GitHub integration takes the
+# version and publication date from the release itself. Pinning them here means
+# hand-editing this file on every release, which is how it drifted to 2.1.5 while
+# the project shipped 2.4.0. The DOI below is the *concept* DOI: it is stable
+# across releases and always resolves to the latest version.
 doi: "10.5281/zenodo.15733564"
 repository-code: "https://github.com/Ultraplot/UltraPlot"
 license: "MIT"