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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2013-10-21 14:37:33 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Why not keep the list of assignments in a text file in a git
> > repo, where it is easy for developer to modify. That would also
> > ensure that the build system doesn't depend on any resources
> > outside of the infra team's control.
>
> Good point, though we'd still need to query the seed data from
> somewhere. I originally didn't suggest it because I was assuming the
> affiliation mapping could provide a fairly accurate representation
> of work-for-hire situations at different points in history for any
> given contributor and we wouldn't want to maintain two copies of
> that in different places. As the discussion evolved it seems that
> affiliation and copyright assignment are probably not as closely
> tied as I first presumed (though they might be somewhat similar).
>
> Anyway, I wasn't so much trying to suggest that we should do this,
> but rather point out the complexity involved it having it be
> anywhere close to accurate.
>

Sure. If we do it, we have to acknowledge that it's only as accurate as the
developers care to keep the database. An automatic check would just
encourage them to do that.

Doug


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