[Feature]: link to zenodo to ease citation of the spec-kit in "sciency" papers

[yarikoptic]

Problem Statement

follow up to

• feat: add CITATION.cff and .zenodo.json for academic citation support #2291

which seems only partially addressed

• [Feature]: link to zenodo to ease citation of the spec-kit in "sciency" papers #2269

Proposed Solution

first -- thank you for taking care about that issue!

there was a release 0.7.4 and zenodo record was not minted I think -- at least I do not find it

https://zenodo.org/search?q=spec%20kit%200.7.4&f=publication_date%3A2025-10-21..2026-04-21&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=bestmatch

reasons could be

• repository was not linked to zenodo by some authorized owner (or contributor? dunno) of the repo
• there was a problem with provided .zenodo.json and/or CITATION.cff -- it should be visible somewhere among https://zenodo.org/me/uploads?q=&f=shared_with_me%3Afalse&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest or somewhere there on dashboard -- where if file is not following the schema, release on zenodo would fail
  • that is partially why I usually just link and release first to see if zenodo picks up at all, and then provide a custom metadata file

[mnriem]

Did I miss something?

[yarikoptic]

you might. Did you toggle the toggle for this repo in your (after you logged in) https://zenodo.org/account/settings/github/ ?

[yarikoptic]

e.g. here is how that page looks for me (and reachable through that 'github' in the right drop down menu):

[mnriem]

Ah I did not realize that it would need something like that. Unfortunately I won't be able to turn that on as it would require to red tape that I just do not have time to deal with. I rather spent my time on Spec Kit itself. Is there any other way this can work?