Script to update authors.md automatically from the git changelog

bin/update-authors.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Update the authors.md file with the authors from the git log
+"""
+
+import re
+import subprocess
+
+AUTHORS = "docs/content/authors.md"
+IGNORE = [ "nick@raig-wood.com" ]
+
+def load():
+    """
+    returns a set of emails already in authors.md
+    """
+    with open(AUTHORS) as fd:
+        authors = fd.read()
+    emails = set(re.findall(r"<(.*?)>", authors))
+    emails.update(IGNORE)
+    return emails
+
+def add_email(name, email):
+    """
+    adds the email passed in to the end of authors.md
+    """
+    print "Adding %s <%s>" % (name, email)
+    with open(AUTHORS, "a+") as fd:
+        print >>fd, "  * %s <%s>" % (name, email)
+    subprocess.check_call(["git", "commit", "-m", "Add %s to contributors" % name, AUTHORS])
+    
+def main():
+    out = subprocess.check_output(["git", "log", '--reverse', '--format=%an|%ae', "master"])
+
+    previous = load()
+    for line in out.split("\n"):
+        line = line.strip()
+        if line == "":
+            continue
+        name, email = line.split("|")
+        if email in previous:
+            continue
+        previous.add(email)
+        add_email(name, email)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()