Allow multiple authors

[dstansby]

Is Your Feature Request Related to a Problem? Please Describe

When the cookiecutter is run, it asks for author_given_names and author_family_names. This doesn't allow for the possibility of the software having multiple authors however.

Describe the Solution You'd Like

An option for multiple authors to be added when creating a new package.

Describe Alternatives You've Considered

No response

Additional Context

No response

[samcunliffe]

I remember discussing this and we decided that one author was the least of all evils. The problem with multiple authors, is that there's not nice syntax to do this.

The options AFAIR:

• Take lists of names and emails, then split (which is problematic if you have a different name order or multiple surnames or... anything vaguely non-John-Smith).
• Have author_2_firstname and author_2_secondname etc. Then cancel all after an empty response is recieved.

Here's a comment where we discussed it.

[paddyroddy]

Yeah, it becomes quite non-trivial to support n-authors. Hard to know what is best to do here.