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.