DOC/ENH: use CITATION.cff

[jklenzing]

Description

• Updates the code to use CITATION.cff as primary record of authorship.
• Includes cff-validator action in GitHub Actions.
• Updates docs to point contributors to CITATION.cff.
• Updates maintenance doc to describe method of generating .zenodo.json from CITATION.cff
• Updates maintenance doc to remove discussion of wheels (removed in BUG: GitHub Actions and artifact upload, broken doc links #154)

Fixes #136

Type of change

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• This change requires a documentation update

How Has This Been Tested?

install cffconvert via pip

cffconvert --validate

Test Configuration

• Operating system: Mac Os X
• Python version number: 3.12.6
• Compiler with version number: gfortran 14.2
• Relevant local setup details: n/a

Checklist

• Make sure you are merging into the develop (not main) branch
• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules
• Add a note to Changelog.rst, summarising the changes
• Add yourself to AUTHORS.rst and .zenodo.json

[coveralls]

Pull Request Test Coverage Report for Build 16837472598

Details

• 0 of 0 changed or added relevant lines in 0 files are covered.
• No unchanged relevant lines lost coverage.
• Overall coverage remained the same at 99.701%

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Totals
Change from base Build 13998411214:	0.0%
Covered Lines:	999
Relevant Lines:	1002

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💛 - Coveralls

[aburrell]

Docs are failing for a readme line that I can't find.

[jklenzing]

Docs are failing for a readme line that I can't find.

It's for the codeclimate badge. If I use the direct link I get a server error message. Not sure if the service is down or something changed on the back end EDIT: looks like you already found it.

[aburrell]

MacOS failures captured in #157