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From:
James E Keenan
Date:
February 23, 2022 23:34
Subject:
Re: Why do we still have AUTHORS?
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b7d2b045-38ac-fda7-98ae-474a4672b915@pobox.com
On 2/23/22 18:11, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> We've been maintaining an AUTHORS file for more than twenty years, but 
> in these days of git I'm kind of wondering why we still do this.
> 
> We actually have tests that check if any new addition matches git, why 
> don't we just rely on git instead? And remain a HISTORIC-AUTHORS file 
> honoring the contributors who predate our transition to git.
> 
> Right now it's a recurring source of test failures for new contributors, 
> without providing any clear benefit IME. Why would we keep doing this?
> 
> Leon

I strongly favor *not* tying ourselves to the flavor-of-the-decade 
technology and keeping fundamental files like AUTHORS, MANIFEST and 
README in plain-text format.  We've been through at least 3 different 
version control systems, so we shouldn't assume that we'll be on Git 
forever.

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