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| author | Yves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com> | 2022-03-01 06:52:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Yves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com> | 2022-03-09 14:40:17 +0100 |
| commit | a5931453352a489afb7c6e90d1711b35307b1975 (patch) | |
| tree | 723f2657898de02113d6bde5d5c09b45378d2d83 /MANIFEST | |
| parent | b0a2ad1aecf846f72a213db70b6bae92d9040499 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a5931453352a489afb7c6e90d1711b35307b1975.tar.gz | |
improved .mailmap and AUTHORS file logic
This change updates AUTHORS with multiple missing contributors to the
project. It updates .mailmap so that the preferred email for each
developer matches what is in AUTHORS (sometimes changing the AUTHORS
entry, sometimes changes the .mailmap entry or entries to achieve this
goal. It also adds a new tool, Porting/UpdateAuthors.pl which can be
used to automatically update the relevant data.
The general idea is that if you run Porting/UpdateAuthors.pl any never
developers will be added to AUTHORS, and new entries will be added to
the .mailmap file. The aim is that the only data we need to have to
manage both files is the data in both files and the commit history
itself. There is NOT embedded special datasets in the tool.
The idea is that *every* developer, be it author or committer has at
least one entry in .mailmap, and that the vast majority of the email
data we have for commits is mapped to corresponding entry in the AUTHORS
file. Furthermore the .mailmap file is expected to have an entry for
every distinct email ever used by a developer on the project.
If you run Porting/UpdateAuthors.pl the tool will analyze all the
commits in the projects history, and update either or both the .mailmap
and AUTHORS file appropriately. If an existing developer adds a commit
which either has the same name or email as is listed already then it
will DTRT and update the .mailmap with the appropriate mappings. If a
new developer adds a commit then it will DTRT and update both the
.mailmap and the AUTHORS file with that developers details.
Every single existing distinct name/email combination has been added to
the mailmap, and matched to AUTHORS data. In some case where there was
conflicting or missing data I used an educated guess, contacted the
developer myself, or verified the email with the email provider. Eg.
gmail.com will helpfully resolve gmail email addresses to their name if
you simply type the email address into a new mail.
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@@ -5479,6 +5479,7 @@ Porting/sync-with-cpan Sync with CPAN Porting/timecheck.c Test program for the 2038 fix Porting/timecheck2.c Test program for the 2038 fix Porting/todo.pod Perl things to do +Porting/updateAUTHORS.pl Tool to automatically update AUTHORS and .mailmap from git log data Porting/valgrindpp.pl Summarize valgrind reports Porting/vote_admin_guide.pod Perlgov Vote Administrator guide pp.c Push/Pop code |