[Pulp-dev] remove AUTHORS

Brian Bouterse bbouters at redhat.com
Wed Apr 4 16:57:18 UTC 2018


OK I'm convinced. Let's remove it altogether. Anyone who needs a serious
answer will be able to find one.

Thank you!
Brian


On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:55 PM, David Davis <daviddavis at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is @dalley’s response on the PR which I agree with:
>
> I would rather get rid of the AUTHORS entirely and put the documentation
> for `git shortlog -sne` elsewhere (or nowhere).
>
> People who want that info should just look at the contributors page for
> the repository on github and, if they need the list in text form, `git
> shortlog -sn` is very very high in the search rankings for that query.
>
>
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You did update the dev guide already. Thank you for pointing that out. I
>> was mistaken.
>>
>> My main thinking is about the copyright which indicates the code is owned
>> by the pulp contributors. Having a simple way to provide a definitive
>> answer to that question is useful enough to document. An alternative to
>> keeping it in the AUTHORS file contents would be to add it somewhere in the
>> docs.
>>
>> What do others want to do?
>>
>> Thanks all,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Irina Gulina <igulina at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> * the dev-guide doc was already updated in that PR, or do I miss smth?
>>> * Does anybody else want the AUTHORS file be updated with smth like "To
>>> see the list of contributors run `git shortlog -sne` command?
>>> Personally, I think it's not needed.
>>> * ok, I will do it for pulp 2 and 3, as soon as we agree on the previous
>>> point.
>>>
>>> Thanks all,
>>> Irina
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Brian Bouterse" <bbouters at redhat.com>
>>> To: "Daniel Alley" <dalley at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "Pulp-dev" <pulp-dev at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 4 April, 2018 5:26:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Pulp-dev] remove AUTHORS
>>>
>>> +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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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