contributor names should refresh periodically about swiftpackageindex-server HOT 4 CLOSED

Also, because we just use git to pull the info, you can use git mailmap to update existing entries in the git log: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmailmap. I believe by setting up proper aliases this should even allow you to collapse all the entries into a single one.

This has the advantage that it won't interfere with future changes to the author list by overriding the stat computation.

Hope that helps!

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Hi @tayloraswift, and I'm sorry if it's not showing what you want it to. We do refresh this list every day from git history. To get the data, we run git shortlog -sn and populate this field from there.

For this repository, I get this result:

$ git shortlog -sn

    79  kelvin13
    36  kelvin
    16  taylorswift
     1  Tobias
     1  taylorswift (dianna)

We then take the most significant names from that list and if there are more, it gets "and X other contributors" appended.

Obviously, it's not trivial to fix up the names in the git history so we also allow this field to be overridden with any text that you'd like it to have. We read an authors property from the .spi.yml file in your repository.

As an example, the Vapor team have done this:

You can see this specified in their .spi.yml file here: https://github.com/vapor/vapor/blob/3a7da193a2937472b252b8db210897e7abf37b47/.spi.yml#L3

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See also https://ntietz.com/blog/git-mailmap-for-name-changes/

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I'll close this as I think it might be resolved, but please feel free to re-open it if there is anything still outstanding @tayloraswift!

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