Make book releases, PDF output and Zenodo DOIs

[sneumann]

Hi, by making releases of the book, possibly with PDF as additional output,
and connecting Zenodo, the book will get a DOI and authors be mentioned
in the metadata. That'll make it easier to reference from bibliography managers,
and Zonodo will ensure long term archival. Yours, Steffen

[lshep]

We are expecting a lot of significant changes over the next few months to the guidelines here. Until those happen and its stable I would hold off on doing this. We can reconsider once those revamps are included.

[vjcitn]

Keeping this issue alive? @sneumann which book are you referring to? Oddly enough I raised this topic at today's tech advisory board but was unaware of this suggestion.

[sneumann]

Hi, to me http://contributions.bioconductor.org/ looks like a book, and while I prefer reading the HTML version, if a PDF variant can easily be configured in the build system/continuous integration, having a PDF could be a no-brainer, and if you have that, pushing to Zenodo upon releases of the book would also be pain-free and give us DOIs and metadata. So, let's keep it open, and if someone touches the build system and saw an easy method to enable PDF (or ePub ...) that'd be great.
@stanstrup created that for https://rformassspectrometry.github.io/metaRbolomics-book/index.html#this-book-in-other-formats, although I can't tell if we're using the same framework for the books.
Yours, Steffen