Re: Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Ken Sharp]

On 16/08/13 14:46, Tae Wong wrote:> The AUTHORS file have all developers 
from the GIT log which were
> sorted on their first names.
>
> This patch will switch the sort order from first to last names.

This isn't how the AUTHORS file is generated.

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/5da31c8817293ff98b4defceb962f7d...

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

Wow! It is sorted on the first names, not on the last names...

You want to apply the patch. When you sort developers in alphabetical
order, you must choose first names or last names.

You want to sort it by last names.

This patch contains several names with particles (de Saedeleer, Van
Assche...) sorted in the last names by case-insensitive.

-- 
Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Tae Wong <seotaewong40(a)gmail.com> writes:
> Wow! It is sorted on the first names, not on the last names...
>
> You want to apply the patch. When you sort developers in alphabetical
> order, you must choose first names or last names.

It's autogenerated, so it's simply sorted textually. Feel free to
provide a script that sorts by last name.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

Julliard said that it should feel free to provide a script that sorts
by last name.

You want to do this.

-- 
Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 08/16/2013 04:42 PM, Tae Wong wrote:
> Julliard said that it should feel free to provide a script that sorts
> by last name.
>
> You want to do this.
> Careful. It is a trap. He is fine with it if it is done *right*.
> Figuring out what the last name is is a hard problem.

bye
	michael

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

In the GIT tree, the AUTHORS file is sorted on first names.

-- 
Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 08/16/2013 05:40 PM, Tae Wong wrote:
> In the GIT tree, the AUTHORS file is sorted on first names.
> Wrong.
> It is sorted by the text line. The first word on the line can be the
> first or lastname, depending what the author used.

bye
	michael

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

Older revisions sort them by last name instead of text line.

Your file contains all of the names sorted on last name.

The current revision contains all names sorted in first name, not last name.

-- 
Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Tae Wong <seotaewong40(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Older revisions sort them by last name instead of text line.
>
> Your file contains all of the names sorted on last name.
>
> The current revision contains all names sorted in first name, not last name.

The old revisions were updated manually.
The current revision is updated automatically from git "committer
information" (e.g. 'user.name' config variable , and most people
happen to set it to "firstname family_name"
-- 
Frédéric Delanoy

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

You have to manually update it by adding all authors from the GIT log.

The attachment is here at first message.

-- 
Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 08/16/2013 09:33 PM, Tae Wong wrote:
> You have to manually update it by adding all authors from the GIT log.
> 
> The attachment is here at first message.
That one you did is not correct either:
- I see some Spanish "double" last names sorted by the 2nd one instead
  of the first.
- In Dutch the "van" is not part of last name so you cannot sort those
  under "V"

I'm sure there is more of that in other languages. Like I said this is
not a trivial problem. And not a problem that can be automated thus not
sustainable long term. There's a reason git opts to sort the text lines.

bye
        michael

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

Particles "van" and "de" can be parts of last name for non-Dutch persons.

On 8/17/13, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/16/2013 09:33 PM, Tae Wong wrote:
>> You have to manually update it by adding all authors from the GIT log.
>>
>> The attachment is here at first message.
> That one you did is not correct either:
> - I see some Spanish "double" last names sorted by the 2nd one instead
>   of the first.
> - In Dutch the "van" is not part of last name so you cannot sort those
>   under "V"
>
> I'm sure there is more of that in other languages. Like I said this is
> not a trivial problem. And not a problem that can be automated thus not
> sustainable long term. There's a reason git opts to sort the text lines.
>
> bye
>         michael
>


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Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Ken Sharp]

This is clearly going nowhere.

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

Non-Dutch names starting with a last name of van can be placed under v
and d can be placed under d.

-- 
Tae Wong

Sort the AUTHORS file by their last names.

[Tae Wong]

Non-Dutch names like Van Buggenhaut can be placed under V instead.

-- 
Tae Wong