Bruno Oliveira <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:07 AM Floris Bruynooghe <[email protected]> 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? > > I'm considering introducing Invoke tasks so we have a well known set of > tasks that automate that kind of stuff, for example: > > $ invoke generate_authors > $ invoke generate_news > $ invoke generate_announce > > And so on. > > Eventually we can get to the point where all the changes needed for a > release can be done with two commands: > > $ git tag 3.1.0 > $ invoke prepare_release nicoddemus > > Where 'prepare_release' would generate news, authors, package and upload a > devpi package to nicoddemus/dev on devpi.
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