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On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, 07:43 Ovid via perl5-porters, <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote: > 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? > +1 > Best, > Ovid > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> > > 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 > > I don't agree with the premise here, the market around VC has completely changed. For good reason. I think its safe to say that if git is supplanted that whatever replaces will be highly likely to be very compatible and feature equivalent. I think that generating the authors file from git commit logs makes perfect sense. It should be trivial even. Yves >Thread Previous | Thread Next