Use all-stars to reduce duplicates and provide more author info

[nexdrew]

Based on conversation here and similar idea here, I created all-stars which contains pre-fetched author data for the maintainers of the top depended packages on npm. Credits could leverage this to achieve the following, without hitting the network or sacrificing speed:

1. Remove duplicate listings of some popular authors

   So that, e.g., the following can be identified as the same person and grouped/listed once:

   jonschlinkert github@sellside.com (12 packages)
   Jon Schlinkert (12 packages)
   ...
   Isaac Z. Schlueter i@izs.me (19 packages)
   isaacs isaacs@npmjs.com (7 packages)
   ...
   juliangruber julian@juliangruber.com (4 packages)
   Julian Gruber mail@juliangruber.com (4 packages)
   ...
   jonathanong jonathanrichardong@gmail.com (3 packages)
   Jonathan Ong me@jongleberry.com (2 packages)
   

2. Provide more info, like GitHub username, for several authors

   E.g. something like this (or credits-cli could just use a different style for GitHub usernames):

   Isaac Z. Schlueter isaacs@npmjs.com [GitHub: isaacs] (26 packages)
   Jon Schlinkert github@sellside.com [GitHub: jonschlinkert] (24 packages)
   Julian Gruber julian@juliangruber.com [GitHub: juliangruber] (8 packages)
   Jonathan Ong jonathanrichardong@gmail.com [GitHub: jonathanong] (5 packages)
   

The initial release of all-stars includes data for 251 authors of the top 150 depended packages.

Please take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks!

[stefanjudis]

Hmm... Interesting. :)

What should happen to the people that are not included in all-stars?

I will check you project in detail soon, I've got a lot to do on the weekend. ;) Please feel free to ping me again, when you haven't heard something after a few days. :)

[nexdrew]

For maintainers that are not found in all-stars, I would just stick with the current functionality - no gain or loss there.

Over time, PRs could be created against all-stars to add missing folks - no changes to credits would be required at that point (besides maybe bumping the dependency). 😎

[stefanjudis]

Closed with #8.