On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi@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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Jeremy Stanley

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