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.

That all sounds great!
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