[Pulp-dev] remove AUTHORS

[Brian Bouterse]

+1 to removing AUTHORS. I left some requests on the issue:

* update some of the necessary docs
* replace the AUTHORS content docs for the git shortlog -sne command
* to do it for both pulp2 and pulp3.

https://github.com/pulp/pulp/pull/3393#issuecomment-378631901

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Daniel Alley <dalley at redhat.com> wrote:

> +0
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Dana Walker <dawalker at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I like Austin's point about getting to specify contact info for a
>> specific project as I have different emails for different types of
>> contributions myself, but I don't want to have to update things in multiple
>> places down the road when I can just keep track of my listed contact
>> details in my github settings.  The same goes for someone who wants privacy
>> and doesn't want their email listed or someone who has changed their name.
>> I created the AUTHORS file for pulp_file recently and had misgivings about
>> whether each of these contributors would have chosen to have the info I put
>> together as their representative contact info, especially since we squashed
>> down to one name and email which involves making some assumptions.
>>
>> I also like Irina's points about redundancy with GitHub's tracking of
>> contributors (though that's a very specific thing that excludes merge
>> commits, and for instance, I have made contributions to pulp through PRs
>> and my name is not listed there), and more importantly, inaccurate and out
>> of date info when hardcoded.
>>
>> I'm +1 to this PR to remove AUTHORS files moving forward.
>>
>> --Dana
>>
>>
>> Dana Walker
>>
>> Associate Software Engineer
>>
>> Red Hat
>>
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>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Austin Macdonald <amacdona at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> One reason to keep the AUTHORS file is that it allows contributors to
>>> specify their contact info instead of just linking to their GitHub page,
>>> were they might not have an email listed.
>>>
>>> I assume this discussion is restricted to pulp/pulp. The plugins are
>>> free to handle however they prefer.
>>>
>>> Personally, I am fine either way. Remove +0, one less file.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 05:22 Irina Gulina <igulina at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Pulp Team,
>>>>
>>>> Recently, I have opened a PR to remove the AUTHORS file [1], and was
>>>> suggested to bring it up here.
>>>> Please let us/me know what you think about it. Any feedback will be
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Happy Wednesday,
>>>> Irina
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/pulp/pulp/pull/3393
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