Re: Proposal: include list of contributors on GNU Emacs website

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 10/28/19 11:58 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
>> There is no script. Someone could write a script that would do a
>> good job of what you're suggesting, and volunteers are welcome to do
>> so.
> There is example I gave you.

That example is just part of the problem; it's not enough to generate 
the web page you asked for. For example, the file that the script 
generates for Emacs (once you modify it to work for Emacs), is 
improperly encoded because some of the names are in UTF-8 and some use a 
different (non-ASCII) encoding. There are other glitches like that that 
would need to be addressed. Plus, surely we can do better than a plain 
text file listing one name per line.

Furthermore, having just that script is not enough; there needs to be an 
automated way to generate the updated website. It's not a hard job to 
automate all this, but it is work that someone would need to do (and 
more importantly, test).