Alec Smecher

@jonasraoni, that sounds good; can you put together a PR?

@jonasraoni, is there still work required on this one? I don't mind if we look for future optimizations, but it would be good to scope issue entries so that there's...

@jonasraoni, sure, just looking for an opportunity to turn "improve everything" issues (it's unclear when the work is done) into more measurable issues. No rush, but do keep this on...

@AhemNason, what's your take on authorless submissions in general from a librarian/metadata quality perspective? I'd worry about introducing the potential for downstream breakage with other formats that will require creator...

Sorry, I could've phrased that in a way that poked fewer bears. Also the author email requirement, when a record is appropriate (https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/3561). Actually I think we're well situated to...

@CreationTribe, that's interesting, but also a bit of a niche (it would be hard for the dev team to prioritize), and it is distinct from authorless submissions. Simply hiding the...

@CreationTribe, pull requests are always welcome! You've proposed two approaches -- authorless publications and "anonymous" authors -- and of the two, authorless publications (as described in this issue) already has...

@nils-stefan-weiher, can you clarify? This issue describes a bunch of different additions to author capabilities -- zero authors, anonymous authors, and organizational authors. Are any of these of particular interest?

@AhemNason, what's your timeline? :upside_down_face: