[Pulp-dev] remove AUTHORS

[Dana Walker]

An extra +1 based on David's good points.

--Dana

Dana Walker

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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:12 AM, David Davis <daviddavis at redhat.com> wrote:

> There are problems I see with the AUTHORS file:
>
> - It exposes personal info. It makes it easy for headhunters to reap email
> addresses.
> - Currently it’s out of date and authors are missing (e.g. @dawalker)
> - It’s badly formatted. It looks like it’s somewhat alphabetical order but
> the last entry is M[1]
> - People would prefer not to be in it so we can’t autogenerate/autoupdate
> it
> - Sometimes we have to revert commits and people often update AUTHORS in
> the same commit (e.g. [2])
> - Perhaps most importantly, there already is a contributors page on
> github[3] and also you can use git shortlog to get a list of contributors.
>
> I’m +1 on removing the AUTHORS file.
>
> [1] https://git.io/vxMLp
> [2] https://github.com/pulp/pulp/commit/8b6b11e45a72fffb56e7482a1d91fa4
> <https://github.com/pulp/pulp/commit/8b6b11e45a72fffb56e7482a1d91fa4dbae698e1#diff-3d350169560e75d0cf9fc8e3574a3639R22>
> dbae698e1#diff-3d350169560e75d0cf9fc8e3574a3639R22
> <https://github.com/pulp/pulp/commit/8b6b11e45a72fffb56e7482a1d91fa4dbae698e1#diff-3d350169560e75d0cf9fc8e3574a3639R22>
> [3] https://github.com/pulp/pulp/graphs/contributors
>
>
> David
>
> 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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