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demerphq
Date:
February 24, 2022 09:15
Subject:
Re: Why do we still have AUTHORS?
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 06:14, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:

> On 2022-02-23 4:25 p.m., demerphq wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, 07:43 Ovid 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
>
> Also agree.  Sure, add auto-generation features.  But the AUTHORS and such
> should still exist as actual committed files. -- Darren Duncan
>

Just to be clear that *is* what I meant. Even though I think it is not
appropriate to compare pre-git with post-git, I wouldnt get rid of AUTHORS,
I would simply automate its construction.

I started looking into tooling to do so earlier today actually.

cheers,
Yves

-- 
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

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