authors and contributors not retrieved correctly

[francoto]

tested repositories

• 1. http://gitlab.in2p3.fr/gammalearn/gammalearn
• 2. https://github.com/SoftwareUnderstanding/sw-metadata-bot

1

returns 5 authors

• mikael.jacquemont@lapp.in2p3.fr
• thomas.vuillaume@lapp.in2p3.fr
• michael.dellaiera@lapp.in2p3.fr
• jacquemont@lapp.in2p3.fr
• thomas.vuillaume@lapp.in2p3.fr

one author is mentioned twice

and 0 contributors:

2

returns 2 authors:

• Organization https://github.com/SoftwareUnderstanding
• Person tom.francois@lapp.in2p3.fr

and 0 contributor as well

expectations

I would expect the github contributors to be retrieved automatically.
Both these repos have a codemeta.json already

[dgarijo]

@francoto thanks!

Step by step explanation:

• The info from CodeMeta is not being displayed correctly, for some reason. We'll look into that.
• Also, the repeated author. That should be only one.

Interestingly, I see no error in somef:

"author": [{"@type": "Person", "email": "mikael.jacquemont@lapp.in2p3.fr", "name": "Mikael Jacquemont"}, {"@type": "Person", "email": "thomas.vuillaume@lapp.in2p3.fr", "name": "Thomas Vuillaume"}, {"@type": "Person", "email": "michael.dellaiera@lapp.in2p3.fr", "name": "Micha\u00ebl Dell'aiera"}, {"@type": "Person", "email": "jacquemont@lapp.in2p3.fr", "name": "M. Jacquemont"}]

As for the contributors, we are not getting the contributors from GitHub at this point. The reason is that many contributors don't have names (just aliases), and just adding a list of the people who committed may not translate to those who are considered worth credit for the software. We take contributors from package files, metadata files and CONTRIBUTORS.md files. Also CODEOWNERS file, if I am not wrong. But we can include an option for this.

[dgarijo]

According to Juanje, it looks like there is an error filling the form. We retrieve the metadata, but we don't display it properly, which yields a broken CodeMeta.