Authors / Contributors metadata?

[equalsJeffH]

It seems Bikeshed metadata only knows about Editor (and Former Editor) but not about Author or Contributor

It seems the most recent pubrules (https://www.w3.org/pubrules/doc/rules/?profile=WD#front-matter) uses the terms Editor and Author interchangeably, but suggests listing "contributors" in an acknowledgements section.

At times it is useful to list various classes of a spec's co-authors on the title page and distriguish among them e.g. as "Editors" and "contributors / authors".

Thus I suggest adding metadata item of (at least) "Author" to bikeshed.

[tabatkins]

While the Editor line has some special parsing rules to handle common stuff, you can add whatever additional information you want via custom metadata.

Just put in !Contributors: some person's name here; do it multiple times to get several people listed under the "Contributors" group.

(Note that you can also use Editor Term if you want the spec to say "Authors" instead of "Editors".)

[equalsJeffH]

Ok, we'll try it out, thanks :)

[equalsJeffH]

@tabatkins

...you can add whatever additional information you want via custom metadata.

Just put in !Contributors: some person's name here; do it multiple times to get several people listed under the "Contributors" group.

I tried that and the results are suboptimal. This source:

!Contributors: Arnar Birgisson, w3cid 87332, Google, arnarb@google.com
!Contributors: Alexei Czeskis, w3cid 87258, Google, aczeskis@google.com
!Contributors: Hubert Le Van Gong, w3cid 84817, PayPal, hlevangong@paypal.com

..produced this rendered html:

Contributors:
    Arnar Birgisson, w3cid 87332, Google, arnarb@google.com 
    Alexei Czeskis, w3cid 87258, Google, aczeskis@google.com 
    Hubert Le Van Gong, w3cid 84817, PayPal, hlevangong@paypal.com 

Rather than what I wanted, which would be properly-linked rendered HTML as the "Editor" metadata produces, as in:

Contributors:
    Arnar Birgisson (Google) 
    Alexei Czeskis (Google) 
    Hubert Le Van Gong (PayPal) 

It would be helpful if BS would treat "Contributor:" metadata entries the same as "Editor:". Thanks.

[tabatkins]

Per @frivoal suggestion, a way to opt a custom metadata into particular parsing rules. Start with Editor-parsing, see what else I need to do.