On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:43:23PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     
     
     I think we should consider generating ???AUTHORS??? upon ???make dist???
     eventually, ideally with a list of those who contributed to the last
     release, and then the list of all those who contributed at all.  Any
     takers?  :-)
     

I'm against.  

The measure of contribution of any one individual cannot be determined by
any parametric algorithm.  

Attempting to generate such a list might lead to people makeing trivial or
frivolous contributions in order to get their name in the list.

J'
     

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