[libvirt] Autogenerate AUTHORS?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 02:17:03PM -0400, 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.

As long as we don't loose the distinction between the primary maintainers
with commit access, and the patch submitters, I'm fine with auto-generating
it

Daniel
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