[ENH] use citation.cff to store affiliations of authors

.github/workflows/README.md

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Uses flake8 tool to verify code is PEP8 compliant. Configured in [.flake8](/.fla
 
 ### f_strings.yml
 
-Checks for f strings in the codebase with [flynt](https://pypi.org/project/flynt/). 
+Checks for f strings in the codebase with [flynt](https://pypi.org/project/flynt/).
 Configured in [pyproject.toml](/pyproject.toml)
 Flynt will check if it automatically convert "format" or "%" strings to "f strings".
 This workflow will fail if it finds any potential target to be converted.
@@ -130,3 +130,11 @@ This aims to detect tests that are not properly isolated from each other (test p
 ### update_precommit_hooks.yml
 
 Runs weekly to check for updates in versions of precommit hooks and creates a pull request automatically to apply updates.
+
+## Update authors
+
+### update_authors.yml
+
+If the CITATION.CFF file is modified,
+this workflow will run to update the AUTHORS file
+and the and doc/changes/names.rst file.

.github/workflows/build-docs.yml

@@ -258,6 +258,11 @@ jobs:
            nilearn_data/spm_multimodal_fmri
           key: v1-spm_multimodal_fmri-${{ hashFiles('week_num') }}
 
+      # Update the authors file and the names file
+      # in case a contributor has been added to citation.cff
+      # but did not run the maint_tools/citation_cff_maint.py script.
+      - name: update AUTHORS.rst and doc/changes/names.rst
+        run: python maint_tools/citation_cff_maint.py
       # Run the doc build. If no data is restored in previous steps, the data
       # will be downloaded during the build (this only applies for full builds;
       # no data is downloaded for partial builds).

.github/workflows/update_authors.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# github action to update AUTHORS.rst file if CITATION.cff is updated
+name: update authors
+
+on:
+    push:
+        branches:
+            - "main"
+
+concurrency:
+    group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+    cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+    update_authors:
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        steps:
+            - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+            - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+              with:
+                python-version: "3.11"
+
+            - name: install dependencies
+              run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip ruamel.yaml
+
+            - name: update AUTHORS.rst and doc/changes/names.rst
+              run: python maint_tools/citation_cff_maint.py
+
+            - name: Create Pull Request
+              uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
+              with:
+                  commit-message: update AUTHORS.rst and doc/changes/names.rst
+                  base: main
+                  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+                  delete-branch: true
+                  title: '[BOT] update AUTHORS.rst and doc/changes/names.rst'
+                  body: 'done via this [GitHub Action](https://github.com/${{ github.repository_owner }}/nilearn/blob/main/.github/workflows/update_authors.yml)'

.github/workflows/validation_cff.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+name: validation of citation.cff
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: ['*']
+  pull_request:
+    branches: ['*']
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+
+  validate_cff:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Check whether the citation metadata from CITATION.cff is valid
+      uses: citation-file-format/cffconvert-github-action@2.0.0
+      with:
+        args: --validate

AUTHORS.rst

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ An up-to-date list of contributors can be seen in on
 
 Additional credit goes to `Michael Hanke`_ and `Yaroslav Halchenko`_ for data and packaging.
 
+.. CORE DEV SECTION STARTS HERE
+   The Core developers section is added automatically
+   and should not be edited manually.
+
 .. _core_devs:
 
 Core developers
@@ -33,36 +37,148 @@ The nilearn core developers are:
 * `Taylor Salo`_
 * `Yasmin Mzayek`_
 
+.. CORE DEV SECTION ENDS HERE
+
+.. OTHER CONTRIBUTION SECTION STARTS HERE
+   The Other contributors section is added automatically
+   and should not be edited manually.
+
 Other contributors
 ..................
 
 Some other past or present contributors are:
 
-* `Alexandre Gramfort`_
-* `Binh Nguyen`_
-* `Gael Varoquaux`_
-* `Julia Huntenburg`_
-* `Thomas Bazeille`_
+* `Ahmad Chamma`_
+* `Aina Frau-Pascual`_
+* `Alex Rothberg`_
 * `Alexandre Abadie`_
 * `Alexandre Abraham`_
+* `Alexandre Gramfort`_
+* `Alexandre Savio`_
+* `Alexis Thual`_
+* `Amadeus Kanaan`_
+* `Ana Luisa Pinho`_
 * `Andrés Hoyos Idrobo`_
+* `Anne-Sophie Kieslinger`_
+* `Ariel Rokem`_
+* `Arthur Mensch`_
+* `Audrey Duran`_
 * `Ben Cipollini`_
+* `Bertrand Thirion`_
+* `Binh Nguyen`_
+* `Caglar Cakan`_
 * `Chris Gorgolewski`_
+* `Chris Markiewicz`_
+* `Christian Horea`_
+* `Christian Gerloff`_
+* `Colin Reininger`_
+* `Connor Lane`_
+* `Céline Delettre`_
+* `Dan Gale`_
+* `Daniel Gomez`_
 * `Danilo Bzdok`_
+* `David G Ellis`_
+* `Demian Wassermann`_
+* `Derek Pisner`_
+* `Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos`_
+* `Elizabeth DuPre`_
 * `Elvis Dohmatob`_
+* `Eric Larson`_
+* `Evan Edmond`_
 * `Fabian Pedregosa`_
+* `Franz Liem`_
+* `Gael Varoquaux`_
+* `Gilles de Hollander`_
+* `Greg Kiar`_
+* `Greydon Gilmore`_
+* `Guillaume Lemaitre`_
+* `Hao-Ting Wang`_
+* `Himanshu Aggarwal`_
+* `Ian Abenes`_
+* `Jake Vogel`_
+* `Jan Margeta`_
+* `Jaques Grobler`_
+* `Jason Gors`_
+* `Javier Rasero`_
 * `Jean Kossaifi`_
+* `Jean-Rémi King`_
+* `Jelle Roelof Dalenberg`_
+* `Jeremy Lefort-Besnard`_
+* `Jerome Dockes`_
 * `Jerome-Alexis Chevalier`_
+* `Johannes Wiesner`_
+* `Jon Haitz Legarreta Gorrono`_
+* `Jona Sassenhagen`_
+* `Joshua Teves`_
+* `Julia Huntenburg`_
+* `Julio A Peraza`_
 * `Kamalakar Reddy Daddy`_
+* `Kevin Sitek`_
+* `Koen Helwegen`_
+* `Konstantin Shmelkov`_
 * `Kshitij Chawla`_
+* `Kun CHEN`_
+* `Leonard Sasse`_
 * `Loic Estève`_
+* `Loic Tetrel`_
+* `Luz Paz`_
+* `Manon Pietrantoni`_
 * `Martin Perez-Guevara`_
+* `Martin Wegrzyn`_
+* `Mathias Goncalves`_
+* `Matthias Ekman`_
+* `Matthieu Joulot`_
+* `Mehdi Rahim`_
 * `Michael Eickenberg`_
+* `Michael Hanke`_
+* `Michael Notter`_
+* `Michael Waskom`_
+* `Michelle Wang`_
+* `Mohammad Torabi`_
+* `Moritz Boos`_
+* `Myeong Seop Song`_
+* `Natasha Clarke`_
+* `Neelay Shah`_
+* `Nicolas Gensollen`_
+* `Oscar Esteban`_
+* `Paul Bogdan`_
+* `Paula Sanz-Leon`_
+* `Peer Herholz`_
 * `Philippe Gervais`_
 * `Pierre Bellec`_
+* `Pierre Glaser`_
+* `Pierre-Olivier Quirion`_
+* `Pradeep Reddy Raamana`_
+* `Raphael Meudec`_
+* `Robert Luke`_
+* `Robert Williamson`_
+* `Roberto Guidotti`_
+* `Ronald Phlypo`_
+* `Ryan Hammonds`_
+* `Rémi Gau`_
+* `Sachin Patalasingh`_
+* `Sage Hahn`_
 * `Salma Bougacha`_
+* `Sam Buck Johnson`_
+* `Sami Jawhar`_
+* `Simon Steinkamp`_
+* `Sourav Singh`_
+* `Steven Meisler`_
+* `Sylvain Lan`_
+* `Sylvain Takerkart`_
+* `Tarun Samanta`_
+* `Taylor Salo`_
+* `Thomas Bazeille`_
+* `Tom Vanasse`_
+* `Vasco Diogo`_
 * `Vincent Michel`_
 * `Virgile Fritsch`_
+* `Yaroslav Halchenko`_
+* `Yasmin Mzayek`_
+* `Zvi Baratz`_
+* `Óscar Nájera`_
+
+.. OTHER CONTRIBUTION SECTION ENDS HERE
 
 Funding
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