Automatically spit all contributors into an AUTHORS.md or CONTRIBUTORS.md file

[RichardLitt]

This should be possible, with the name of the user and a link. Perhaps a shim tool would be best, on top of this?

[tgetgood]

So you mean convert the json into a markdown list? Simple enough. I think something downstream from this tool might make the most sense. Do you have templates for the md files?

[RichardLitt]

Yes. I have two templates:

- [@username](https://github.com/username]

and

USERNAME
USERNAME2

Pretty simple, really. Let's make a companion module, maybe?

[tgetgood]

Agreed. A simple downstream script like whodunnit is probably best.

[RichardLitt]

Another great one would add the contributors to the package.json in the contributors field.

[tgetgood]

I've added a --md option to whodidwhat which outputs the contributor list (sorted by gross number of contributions) in the first markdown format above.

Does that suffice for this need?

[RichardLitt]

Not quite. I need two other formats:

User Name <email>

This should match git authors.

And, I need something that works for npm for the package.json: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#people-fields-author-contributors

So:

{ "name" : "Barney Rubble"
, "email" : "b@rubble.com"
, "url" : "http://barnyrubble.tumblr.com/"
}

Or "Barney Rubble <b@rubble.com> (http://barnyrubble.tumblr.com/)".

[Berkmann18]

Was there any progress on this?

[RichardLitt]

Doesn't look like it. :)

[Berkmann18]

Hum, okay, would it be better as a separate package or do you think it should be integrated into NYC?

[RichardLitt]

I think this was the original conception behind https://github.com/mntnr/whodidwhat. Haven't checked in a bit. That may close this issue.

[Berkmann18]

That makes sense.

[RichardLitt]

I'm still not convinced that whodidwhat needs to be a different module, though. But it does resolve this.

[Berkmann18]

Good to know, I was initially wondering if, given the use cases, another package or an extension to whodidwhat or NYC needed to be made.