cffreference: Processing remote CITATION.cff in CI

[kevinmatthes]

In my CI, I would like to assemble my CITATION.cff from a basic set of citation data as well as a list of references containing the processed CITATION.cff files of the projects I use as dependencies. By doing so, I would like to keep my references up-to-date in case that some of the dependency projects should have published new releases. How can I automate this task with Aeruginous?

[kevinmatthes]

Aeruginous offers reading from stdin for its cffreference mode. Thus, you can just curl the raw input CITATION.cff into Aeruginous and cffreference it as usual:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinmatthes/aeruginous-rs/main/CITATION.cff | aeruginous cffreference -o CITATION.cff

For convenience, there is also a GitHub Action available which automatically curls CITATION.cff files of projects hosted on GitHub into Aeruginous; you can bind it as follows.

      - uses: kevinmatthes/aeruginous-rs/[email protected]
        with:
          branch: # branch
          repository: # user/repository