Incorporate feedback for clarity

Co-authored-by: Brian Rose <[email protected]>

portal/cookbook-guide.md

@@ -258,9 +258,12 @@ As always, reach out to a Pythia team member for help with any of these steps!
 
 ### Initiate the Cookbook review process
 
-Your Cookbook will be assigned a Cookbook advocate from the Project Pythia maintenance team.
+If you haven't already, now is a great time to [contact the Project Pythia team](https://discourse.pangeo.io/c/education/project-pythia/60) to let them know about your new Cookbook. You will be assigned a Cookbook advocate from the Pythia maintenance team.
 They will open an issue on your Cookbook repository with the [Cookbook Checklist](cookbook-tasklist.md) for you to document your completion of the above process, plus a few more GitHub-specific steps.
 Once you complete this process, your Cookbook will be ready for review and publication!
+
+### Submit your Cookbook to the Gallery
+
 Click the button below to request addition of your Cookbook to the [Project Pythia Cookbook Gallery](https://cookbooks.projectpythia.org).
 
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portal/cookbook-tasklist.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Once we've marked this entire checklist, [click here to open an issue on Project
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 - [ ] **Confirm you’ve followed the entire Project Pythia [Cookbook Guide](https://projectpythia.org/cookbook-guide.html)**.
-Take note especially of the **Develop your cookbook**, **Authorship and the CITATION.cff file**, **Gallery tags**, and **Generate a DOI** sections. **Save the step of making a “release” of your cookbook as the last step of this checklist.**
+Take note especially of the [Develop your cookbook](https://projectpythia.org/cookbook-guide.html#develop-your-cookbook), [Authorship and the CITATION.cff file](https://projectpythia.org/cookbook-guide.html#authorship-and-the-citation-cff-file), and [Gallery tags](https://projectpythia.org/cookbook-guide.html#gallery-tags) sections. **Save the [Generate a DOI](https://projectpythia.org/cookbook-guide.html#generate-a-doi) step as the last step of this checklist.**
 - [ ] **Confirm that the individual notebooks within your Cookbook adhere to the [notebook template](https://github.com/ProjectPythia/cookbook-template/blob/main/notebooks/notebook-template.ipynb)**.
 If the template does not fit your Cookbook’s needs, that’s fine too! Simply let us know here in this issue.
 - [ ] **Finalize your Cookbook repository name.**
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ This can be seen in individual Pull Requests as green checkmarks ✅ for importa
     - trigger-link-check will fail if links in your content can not be resolved. We can help ignore links that are broken even if they work on manual clicks.
     - Code errors in your notebooks themselves
 - [ ] **Identify a Maintainer team via GitHub handle(s) in this thread.**
-This can be one or more people with availability to check in on this Cookbook, issue fixes to broken content, or with a vision for the future development of the Cookbook.
-- [ ] **Finally, release your Cookbook!**
+This can be one or more people with availability to check in on this Cookbook, issue fixes to broken content, or with a vision for the future development of the Cookbook. This is typically (but not necessarily) one of the primary authors of the Cookbook.
+- [ ] **Link your Cookbook repo to Zenodo for DOI generation**
+Follow steps 1-4 under [Generate a DOI](https://projectpythia.org/cookbook-guide.html#generate-a-doi) in the Cookbook Guide. Return here for instructions on step 5, and your final step:
+- [ ] **Release your Cookbook!**
     - On the right-hand sidebar for your Cookbook repository, click “Create a new release”. If you don’t see this button, you may need to click on the “Releases” header first and “Create” or “Draft” a new release.
     ![GitHub Repository sidebar section titled "Releases"](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProjectPythia/projectpythia.github.io/main/portal/_static/images/4-releases.png "Releases")
     - “Choose a tag”, enter a new tag name. This will be the git reference of the snapshot of code that represents this particular release of your Cookbook! We recommend using a name fitting the [CalVer](https://calver.org/) scheme, so something like v2024.06.13 for the date of the release, then choose “+ Create new tag: <your tag name> on publish” and make its Target main (unless you have the knowledge and desire to release from another branch!)