Re: [libvirt] Autogenerate AUTHORS?
On 06/15/2012 12:17 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
Hi,
The AUTHORS file causes a lot of pain doing backports to -maint branches. It
almost always causes conflicts, and the changes can't just be dropped
otherwise 'make syntax-check' breaks.
Is there anything preventing us from just auto generating this at dist time?
Besides, of course, needing someone to actually implement it.
GNU Coreutils autogenerates its THANKS file by combining THANKS.in
(header and non-commit authors) with git commit authors. Someone could
probably use that for inspiration in writing such a patch. And the fact
that we already have a 'make syntax-check' that validates that AUTHORS
is up-to-date already means that we have code for a lot of the
automation, if we just further tweak it into an automated generation
instead of the current verification.
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Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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