https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429505018
Publication of the Belle II Software
1 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
2 Universita di Torino and INFN, Italy
3 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
4 Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
5 Duke University, USA
6 The University of Melbourne, Australia
* e-mail: Thomas.Kuhr@lmu.de
** e-mail: fabrizio.bianchi@to.infn.it
*** e-mail: giacomo.pietro@kit.edu
**** e-mail: djaffe@bnl.gov
† e-mail: frank.meier@duke.edu
‡ e-mail: martines@unimelb.edu.au
§ e-mail: purquijo@unimelb.edu.au
Published online: 6 May 2024
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.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2024
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