How about an AUTHORS file in (one|each) of the repos? They're usually supposed to be human-readable, but it wouldn't take much to make it machine-readable as well, and have coho output a list of new authors to vet and append to it on each release.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > The automation of icla contributors being compared to commits was mentioned > in another thread[1]. > > >> 3 - Code is made up of commits by individuals that have signed the > >> ICLA (or that are trivial commits) > > I foresee issues as there are lots of cases where github usernames are not > easily compared to actual names. purplecabbage -> Jesse MacFadyen for one! > In some cases github does not even contain the real name of the user. > > Maintaining a list would not only make this easy to automate, but it would > help anyone looking to accept a pull-req from having to vet the > contributor. > > This would require a change to our contributor workflow, but how should we > do it? Some ideas. > 1. Email to the dev list with a special subject ex. IAM Name->githubUser > 2. add your info to a wiki page > 3. add git username to the icla form ( not sure we can add to it ) > 4. when one of us vets someone, we add them to a private? list somewhere > 5. ... ? > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/qyrvfae7ic526dgw > > @purplecabbage > risingj.com >
