RFC use pbr to autogenerate most of the build related files

[david-caro]

Instead of having to manually maintain an authors, changelog, manifest, etc. using pbr (http://docs.openstack.org/developer/pbr/) will allow automating all those files maintenance.

[jirikuncar]

pros

• easier maintenance

cons

• external dependency

cc @inveniosoftware/triagers

[david-caro]

Most of the packages we use A bunch of the packages inspire uses already use pbr (so it's already an indirect dependency).

[lnielsen]

In principle seems nice, I'd however like to see an example. If we go with it, there's 50+ repositories to update :-)

[kaplun]

Seems really a great tool!

[kaplun]

If we go with it, there's 50+ repositories to update :-)

I thought @tiborsimko had already at this point implemented a Photoshop-like "clone stamp" tool to apply the same change to all repos 💃

[jirikuncar]

@kaplun for some simple patches it works, but here we would need to think about migrating some Python code from setup.py too (e.g. version.py parsing, extra requirements hack if it is still needed).