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RFC exclude_author_names
-> alternative_author_names
#97
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or simple |
Hmm, when talking about "alias", people may expect to see the target value specified, as in |
Can we use an "empty" alias to trick it? Normally, all committers should be in AUTHORS.rst. |
I was just wondering about the appropriate naming semantics if we use the word "alias" to represent something that is a "list". To make it more explicit, we currently have:
The proposed
If we use
then it may not look right if people expected to see target values following the
which would be an overkill. This is why I'd rather prefer a "list" like name rather than an "alias" like name. |
The current configuration option to accept alternative author names while checking the completeness of the
AUTHORS
file is calledexclude_author_names
(the meaning being to "exclude" these false positives from being reported). This may appear harsh, as if we were excluding some contributing authors from getting credit or something...What about renaming it to something nicer? Say
alternative_author_names
.(stemmed from inveniosoftware/cookiecutter-invenio-module#60 (comment))
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