[pytest-dev] Remove AUTHORS file?

[Florian Bruhin]

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:24:36PM +0000, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:07 AM Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:
> 
> > What's nice is that AUTHORS is just an alphabetical list of people while
> > the github page ranks people implicitly by some random metric.  It's
> > also possible for packagers to install this file, currently Debian does
> > that for CPython's ACKS file but not for pytest's AUTHORS so who knows
> > how valuable that is.  I don't care overly strong though, I'd vote -0.
> >
> 
> All good points, thanks Floris.
> 
> In light of that, I propose to change it so it is generated automatically
> from git, would that be acceptable?

FWIW here's what I do for qutebrowser:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/v0.10.1/scripts/dev/src2asciidoc.py#L425-L445

I have a small dict of author name corrections for people who
(accidentally) use different names in their commits. I also order people
by the number of commits, which might or might not be a good idea.

Florian

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