Hello, In the current thread about "Making it easier to contribute non-functional changes" Johan Tibell asked about the contributors to the base library. Darcs has a nifty command for this: darcs show authors[1]. This command shows the total number of patches per author. Unfortunately authors email addresses or nicknames change over time which obfuscates this list. Fortunately darcs has a simple way of figuring out which email address or nickname belongs to which author by consulting the .authorspellings file. In this file you can specify the: official author name <official@emailaddress.com>, followed by regular expressions for matching old email addresses and nicknames. The attached patch adds an initial .authorspellings file to the base library. It would be nice if somebody could commit it. It would be even nicer still if we could somehow share the same .authorspellings file between GHC and the different boot libraries. Is it possible (and desirable) to create a symlink from the base library to the ghc repositorie's .authorspellings file (which doesn't exist yet). Or maybe we should create a script that synchronizes the different files. Regards, Bas P.S. If you know the real name that belongs to some obscure nickname used in base or if you know which email addresses belong to the same person, please tell, so I can add them. [1] http://darcs.net/manual/Darcs_commands.html#SECTION007103100000000000000