Un-Text::Unidecode author names in commits

[avar]

A commit like this one has by name as "AEvar Arnfjord Bjarmason" instead of "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason". It's converted by PAUSE (presumably).

Please convert the commits to use original author names if possible.

[schwern]

The issue is likely that CPANPLUS (which I'm using to get the author info) is drawing from authors/01mailrc.txt.gz which in your case says:

alias AVAR       "AEvar Arnfjord Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>"

gitpan can only be as accurate as its data. It would need a better source. Do you know of one? Perhaps where search.cpan.org is getting it? There is /authors/00whois.html but I don't know if that's canonical or complete.

[avar]

PAUSE itself maintains this data, but I don't know if it's exported anywhere. If I go to "Edit Account Info" at PAUSE there's Full Name which in my case is "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" and an ASCII transliteration of Full Name where the default is "AEvar Arnfjord Bjarmason" is supplied by the Text::Unidecode module.

[schwern]

The proper Unicode names are in 02authors.txt.gz. This is pretty easy to parse. Parse::CPAN::Authors, which gitpan is now using to get author information, currently reads from 01mailrc.txt.gz. It can be replaced with a home rolled version, or better yet PCA extended to accept 02authors.txt.gz.