Hi everyone 👋
I just noticed that the CONTRIBUTORS.md that we currently keep in this repo hasn't been updated in over a year and doesn't contain the names of all contributors (as listed in the commit history) either.
Keeping the file up-to-date manually would probably not be feasible, as proven by its current state 😉 So the question is, what to do with it? I could imagine a number of scenarios:
- Drop it entirely, maybe clarify in the README and/or LICENSE that copyright is owned collectively by all contributors, as listed in the commit log
- Replace its contents with a link to an auto-generated list of contributors - Not sure if that's possible on Gitea, but it's a fairly common thing some projects do over on Github
- Write a script that updates the file automatically from the commit log, run that script in CI - Caveat: Would require us to set up CI 😉
- Something entirely different I didn't think of
What are your opinions on this?
Hi everyone 👋
I just noticed that the CONTRIBUTORS.md that we currently keep in this repo hasn't been updated in over a year and doesn't contain the names of all contributors (as listed in the commit history) either.
Keeping the file up-to-date manually would probably not be feasible, as proven by its current state :wink: So the question is, what to do with it? I could imagine a number of scenarios:
- Drop it entirely, maybe clarify in the README and/or LICENSE that copyright is owned collectively by all contributors, as listed in the commit log
- Replace its contents with a link to an auto-generated list of contributors - Not sure if that's possible on Gitea, but it's a fairly common thing some projects do over on Github
- Write a script that updates the file automatically from the commit log, run that script in CI - Caveat: Would require us to set up CI :wink:
- Something entirely different I didn't think of
What are your opinions on this?