Hello. On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:45, Tom Hacohen wrote: > On 20/02/14 10:38, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > > Hello. > > > > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:30, Tom Hacohen wrote: > >> On 20/02/14 10:12, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > >>> Hello. > >>> > >>> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:07, Cedric BAIL wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I think we are also missing the update of the AUTHORS file. I think it > >>>> should be pretty easy to update now that we use git, no ? > >>> > >>> Famous last words? ;) > >>> > >>> The list was ordered by the time people started contributing so far. > >>> If you are happy that we just get a current list of authors from git > >>> and append the missing ones in one batch its fine. Adding them based > >>> on the time for their first contribution would be more problematic. > >>> > >>> If we think the one batch appending way is good enough for us then I > >>> can handle this. Not going to scripting around for the perfect > >>> solution though. > >> > >> > >> I wouldn't change order of contribution, and I wouldn't overwrite this > >> file, as although Daniel and I have tried our best to keep correct > >> attributions, commit message formats weren't as friendly in that regard, > >> so you can't really overwrite this file. > >> > >> If I were you I'd just write a script to get the shortlog of the last > >> period, remove people already in the authors list and manually verify > >> and append the rest. > > > > Why the limit to the last period? I was planning exactly this without > > the limit to the last period. > > > > Just getting all authors, removing the ones already in the AUTHORS > > file and appending them to the existing list. Sure, it would also add > > people we never added (maybe because they only contributed a type fix > > or such) but is that a real problem? > > I was more thinking about the pre-git migration awful authors list. As I > said, while Daniel and I fixed most of the things, there are still a lot > of malformed authors with a low number of commits, or alternatively, svn > names we couldn't track.
OK, thats fair enough. I was thinking you meant from 1.8 to 1.9 > I'd say: at least filter after the git migration (where author info has > been improved). Feel free to manually update .mailmap if you feel like > manually tracking 15 years worth of random authors with bad names. :) Not really. I started the -mailmap thing to show that it is possible. If people want to fix it up for them they can go ahead. I will simply leave out all badly formatted authors from the list. regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
