EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2024)

Publication of the Belle II Software

  • Kuhr Thomas,
  • Bianchi Fabizio,
  • De Pietro Giacomo,
  • Jaffe David,
  • Meier Frank,
  • Sevior Martin,
  • Urquijo Philipp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429505018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 295
p. 05018

Abstract

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The Belle II software was developed by a few hundred individual contributors over several years. Following the rising desire of making it publicly available, the collaboration established open source software policies and procedures. The political and technical challenges and their solutions at Belle II are discussed in this article. With the publication of the Belle II software, basf2, on GitHub and Zenodo in 2021 an important milestone towards open science was reached.