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Add AUTHORS file
An authors file is needed to list and thank people who have contributed to the project.
Hi, could you quote and link docs on the AUTHORS file standard? I'm interested in what advantages the split-out AUTHORS file has over the current authors=[...] field in setup.py or extracting authors from the git log.
More googling yielded https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors/, which outlines how an AUTHORS file (1) delineates who has copyrights to the open-source project and (2) creates a central place to acknowledge contributors' work. Seems worth a look to me. Then again, git log --format=format:'%aN <%aE>' | awk '!x[$0]++' or whatever powers Github's repo insights also can shows who committed, and possibly when and how much.
Hi. AUTHORS file may be a platform-independent (git/github) alternative to acknowledge contributors' work. It is also a common, good practice in open source projects.
It looks like no SPDX repository has an AUTHORS file, so, if you are interested in, you could follow the style of the license-expression library's one, (which is maintained by tools-python's maintainer, who, by the way, suggested adding this file).
Yes, it is still open, the repo does not have an AUTHORS file yet. We used this label to categorize this as something that is not urgent but rather a nice-to-have. One could potentially find a better label for this.
