In configuration file, have a field for contributors not to be listed

[maelle]

So that the PR attribution only happens for "external" contributors.

[krlmlr]

I was hoping we could mix and match by the info stored in DESCRIPTION?

[maelle]

Maybe but in DESCRIPTION there aren't GitHub usernames so one would need to make API calls based on email addresses, assuming all email addresses are listed in DESCRIPTION and users have public email addresses on GitHub (or use the same email address for their commits / don't make commits from the GitHub interface). With a configuration (that could actually live in DESCRIPTION as you once said IIRC), yes sadly author info is stored in two places but at least fledge does not need to make API calls? :sweat_smile:

[krlmlr]

Can we fuzzy-match by full name?

I'd like to see a compelling set of use cases that warrant a dedicated configuration file.

[maelle]

Wouldn't the configuration of conventional commits types (abbreviations, ordering, hiding) be nice? :innocent:

[maelle]

I really wish one could store GitHub username in DESCRIPTION in a standard way :thinking:

[krlmlr]

Does r-universe know?

[maelle]

The matching happens by email address https://github.com/r-universe-org/help#how-to-link-a-maintainer-email-addresses-to-a-username-on-r-universe=

[maelle]

@krlmlr this issue is how we could exclude GitHub Actions users.

[krlmlr]

We could use person(comment = c(github = "krlmlr")) .