On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:10:36 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Also, GLEP 76 as it is written says: "Projects using this scheme must > track authorship in a VCS, unless they list all authors of > copyrightable contributions in an AUTHORS file." Idea: How about using VCS as a defacto set of AUTHORS, but *also* support an AUTHORS file that is designed to extend the content that git provides generically. That way you can just say something like: "if the name appears naturally in git shortlog, you don't need to add anything to the AUTHORS file" And then git2rsync conversion can unify the two input sources. nb: generating the AUTHORS file from git is naturally very time consuming, as it requires full traversal of the entire repository. However, there are practical ways of caching this (eg: generate it, record the SHA1 it was generated at, then, next time, simply traverse the subrange between HEAD and SHA1-last and update the cache based on that). But that very much puts this in the realm of "things that are painful for end consumers to actually do themselves"
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