Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-28 23:43 +0300) wrote:
> I think we should consider generating ‘AUTHORS’ upon ‘make dist’
> eventually, ideally with a list of those who contributed to the last
> release, and then the list of all those who contributed at all. Any
> takers? :-)
I can try. IIUC it requires:
- adding a script (let's say "generate-authors.scm") into "build-aux"
directory that will call an appropriate "git log" command and mess
with its output; something like this:
(use-modules (ice-9 popen)
(ice-9 rdelim)
(srfi srfi-1))
(define* (authors #:optional (range "HEAD"))
"Return a list of authors for commit RANGE."
(let* ((port (open-pipe* OPEN_READ
"git" "log" "--format=%aN <%aE>" range))
(output (read-string port)))
(close-port port)
(let ((authors (string-split output #\newline)))
(delete-duplicates authors))))
;; (authors "v0.8.2..HEAD")
- adding a new target to "Makefile.am" (and to 'dist-hook' there).
Right?
However I see an issue with the autogenerated AUTHORS. There will be
duplicates since people not always use a single name/e-mail. For
example, there are:
Joshua S. Grant <youlys...@riseup.net>
Joshua S. Grant <jgr...@parenthetical.io>
Joshua Grant <ta...@riseup.net>
Guy Grant <tadn...@gmail.com>
or even:
Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr>
