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Can AUTHORS be autogenerated, adding entries and not removing any? If we leave git, we just update the auto generation or remove it but keep the AUTHORS file? Best,Ovid Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, February 24, 2022, 12:34 AM, James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com> wrote: 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.Thread Previous | Thread Next