maint: generate much of the THANKS file

Before this change, we had a tendency to manually list each
contributor's name in THANKS.  Now, each commit "Author" is
included in the generated THANKS file automatically, and most
of the old THANKS file is now a template, THANKS.in.
We'll still have to manually list the names of people who report
problems without a usable patch.

* THANKS.in: New file, derived from THANKS, but removing names of
those who are listed as git log 'Author:'s.
* THANKS: Remove file.
* thanks-gen: New file.
* Makefile.am (THANKS): New rule.
(EXTRA_DIST): Add .mailmap, THANKS.in and thanks-gen.
* .gitignore: Add THANKS and THANKS-to-translators.
* .mailmap: Unify on single address and name-spelling per contributor.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/thanks-gen b/thanks-gen
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f1c11b3a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thanks-gen
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -nl
+# Use Perl's multi-byte alignment code, via sprintf, while
+# performing a rudimentary check for duplicate names and
+# removing duplicate name,email pairs.
+use Encode;
+
+BEGIN { my (%seen, %name) }
+
+chomp;
+my ($name, $email) = split '\0', decode ('UTF-8', $_);
+
+$seen{$name}++
+  and warn "$0: THANKS.in: duplicate name: $name\n";
+
+print encode ('UTF-8', sprintf ('%-36s', $name)), $email
+  unless $seen{"$name\0$email"}++;