ci: Add script to sync CITATION.cff to other files (acts-project#4937)

This pull request introduces an automated workflow for synchronizing citation metadata across `CITATION.cff`, `.zenodo.json`, and `AUTHORS` files, ensuring consistency and maintainability. It adds a new script and pre-commit hook for this purpose, and updates the metadata in all three files to reflect the latest contributors and affiliations.

**Citation metadata automation and updates:**

* Added a new script `CI/sync_citation_metadata.py` to generate `.zenodo.json` and `AUTHORS` from `CITATION.cff`, and check for consistency between them. This script uses `typer`, `rich`, and `pyyaml` for CLI, output formatting, and YAML parsing.
* Registered the new script as a pre-commit hook in `.pre-commit-config.yaml`, so citation metadata consistency is enforced automatically.

**Metadata content updates:**

* Updated `CITATION.cff`, `.zenodo.json`, and `AUTHORS` files to reflect the latest version (`v44.2.0`), new release date, and a significantly revised and expanded list of contributors and affiliations, with improved handling of unaffiliated contributors. [[1]](diffhunk://#diff-9b9f76394a441ff40bf8d7a0f3e0ddd7ae97abfa9a9a6abaedccf76dc4d51295L6-R125) [[2]](diffhunk://#diff-69450eccf330a9c709df151fad75b5a9c02976ac29bd5d251bb16eb367997892L4-R171) [[3]](diffhunk://#diff-ab6af77435f58cc0c9d4c31dfe05656e45187cc7c7fc02aada401a7642125463L3-R48)

Blocked by:
- acts-project#4917

Author: paulgessinger

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -106,3 +106,11 @@ repos:
       require_serial: true
       args: [--indent=4]
       exclude: ^.zenodo.json$
+
+    - id: sync_citation_metadata
+      name: sync citation metadata
+      entry: CI/sync_citation_metadata.py
+      language: python
+      files: ^(CITATION\.cff|\.zenodo\.json|AUTHORS)$
+      additional_dependencies: ["typer", "rich", "pyyaml"]
+      pass_filenames: false

.zenodo.json

@@ -1,127 +1,174 @@
 {
   "description": "Experiment-independent toolkit for (charged) particle track reconstruction in (high energy) physics experiments implemented in modern C++ ",
   "license": "MPL-2.0",
-  "title": "acts-project/acts: v11.0.0",
-  "version": "v11.0.0",
+  "title": "acts-project/acts: vv44.2.0",
+  "version": "v44.2.0",
   "upload_type": "software",
   "creators": [
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Andreas Salzburger"
+      "affiliation": "Zhengzhou University",
+      "name": "Xiaocong Ai"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Paul Gessinger"
+      "affiliation": "Rutherford Appleton Laboratory",
+      "name": "Tim Adye"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / TUM Muenchen",
-      "name": "Fabian Klimpel"
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Guilherme Almeida",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-4257-4278"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "IJCLab",
+      "name": "Corentin Allaire"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "CERN, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki",
+      "name": "Dimitra Amperiadou"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "AGH University of Krakow",
+      "name": "Tomasz Bold"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Moritz Kiehn"
+      "name": "Pierfrancesco Butti"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / JGU Mainz",
-      "name": "Bastian Schlag"
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
+      "name": "Noemi Calace"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Universite Paris-Saclay / CNRS/IN2P3",
-      "name": "Hadrien G."
+      "affiliation": "Annecy LAPP",
+      "name": "Jeremy Couthures"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "University of Massachussets",
-      "name": "Robert Langenberg"
+      "affiliation": "CERN, University of Florence",
+      "name": "Lorenzo Damenti"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "University of Manitoba",
+      "name": "Wouter Deconinck"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Corentin Allaire"
+      "name": "Davide Di Croce"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "DESY Hamburg",
-      "name": "Xiaocong Ai"
+      "affiliation": "CERN, JGU Mainz",
+      "name": "Doga Elitez"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Universitaet Regensburg",
-      "name": "Benjamin Huth"
+      "affiliation": "Brandeis University",
+      "name": "Luis Falda Coelho",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-2298-3605"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "UC Berkeley",
       "name": "Louis-Guillaume Gagnon"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Noemi Calace"
+      "affiliation": "Stanford University",
+      "name": "Rocky Bala Garg"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Attila Krasznahorkay"
+      "name": "Paul Gessinger"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "UC Berkeley",
-      "name": "Beomki Yeo"
+      "affiliation": "DESY",
+      "name": "Maximilian Goblirsch-Kolb"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "IJCLab",
+      "name": "Hadrien Grasland"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "LBNL",
-      "name": "Charles Leggett"
+      "name": "Heather Gray"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Eotvos Lorand University",
-      "name": "Czirkos Angela"
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Christian Gumpert"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "UC Berkeley",
-      "name": "Tomohiro Yamazaki"
+      "affiliation": "University of Massachusetts, Amherst",
+      "name": "Matthew Harris"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Julia Hrdinka"
     },
     {
       "affiliation": "CERN",
-      "name": "Joana Niermann"
+      "name": "Benjamin Huth"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "UC Berkeley",
-      "name": "Irina Ene"
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
+      "name": "Johannes Junggeburth"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Oak Ridge National Laboratory",
-      "name": "Joe Osborn"
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Moritz Kiehn"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "Stanford University",
-      "name": "Rocky Bala Garg"
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Fabian Klimpel"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / TU Wien",
-      "name": "Andreas Stefl"
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Robert Langenberg"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / University of Coimbra",
-      "name": "Luis Falda Coelho",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-2298-3605"
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
+      "name": "Leonardo Monaco"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
+      "name": "Joana Niermann"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / University of Graz",
+      "affiliation": "BNL",
+      "name": "Joe Osborn"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "CERN, University of Graz",
       "name": "Alexander J. Pfleger",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-5524-7738"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "University of Lisbon",
-      "name": "Guilherme Almeida",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-4257-4278"
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Felix Russo",
+      "orcid": "0009-0005-8975-2245"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
+      "name": "Andreas Salzburger"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "",
+      "name": "Bastian Schlag"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / University of Amsterdam",
+      "affiliation": "Carleton University",
+      "name": "Patrick Scholer"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
+      "name": "Andreas Stefl"
+    },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "CERN",
       "name": "Stephen Nicholas Swatman",
       "orcid": "0000-0002-3747-3229"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "CERN / TU Wien",
-      "name": "Felix Russo",
-      "orcid": "0009-0005-8975-2245"
+      "affiliation": "Weizmann Institute of Science",
+      "name": "Roman Urmanov"
     },
     {
-      "affiliation": "UC Berkeley",
-      "name": "Carlo Varni",
-      "orcid": "0000-0001-6733-4310"
+      "affiliation": "AGH University of Krakow",
+      "name": "Carlo Varni"
     }
   ],
   "access_right": "open",

AUTHORS

@@ -1,36 +1,35 @@
 The following people have contributed to the project (in alphabetical order):
 
-- Xiaocong Ai, Zhengzhou University
 - Tim Adye, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
-- Dimitra Amperiadou, CERN, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
+- Xiaocong Ai, Zhengzhou University
 - Corentin Allaire, IJCLab
+- Dimitra Amperiadou, CERN, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 - Tomasz Bold, AGH University of Krakow
 - Pierfrancesco Butti, CERN
 - Noemi Calace, CERN
+- Luis Falda Coelho, Brandeis University
 - Jeremy Couthures, Annecy LAPP
 - Lorenzo Damenti, CERN, University of Florence
 - Wouter Deconinck, University of Manitoba
 - Davide Di Croce, CERN
 - Doga Elitez, CERN, JGU Mainz
-- Luis Falda Coelho, Brandeis University
 - Louis-Guillaume Gagnon, UC Berkeley
-- Rocky Bala Garg, Standford
+- Rocky Bala Garg, Stanford University
 - Paul Gessinger, CERN
 - Maximilian Goblirsch-Kolb, DESY
 - Hadrien Grasland, IJCLab
 - Heather Gray, LBNL
 - Matthew Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 - Benjamin Huth, CERN
 - Johannes Junggeburth, CERN
-- Joana Niermann, CERN
 - Leonardo Monaco, CERN
+- Joana Niermann, CERN
+- Joe Osborn, BNL
 - Alexander J. Pfleger, CERN, University of Graz
 - Andreas Salzburger, CERN
-- Bastian Schlag, Standford University
 - Patrick Scholer, Carleton University
 - Andreas Stefl, CERN
-- Stephen Nicholas Swatman, CERN, University of Amsterdam
-- Joe Osborn, BNL
+- Stephen Nicholas Swatman, CERN
 - Roman Urmanov, Weizmann Institute of Science
 - Carlo Varni, AGH University of Krakow
 
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ Not associated with scientific/academic organisations:
 - Fabian Klimpel
 - Robert Langenberg
 - Felix Russo
+- Bastian Schlag
 
 See also the contributors list on github:
 https://github.com/acts-project/acts/graphs/contributors