Auto merge of #1859 - arcalinea:1783_document_contributors, r=ebfull

Document contributors to zcash

Release-notes.py generates release notes from git shortlog command when release version number is specified, and adds contributors to authors.md file. Can change the way this script works or where contributors are documented.

@nathan-at-least

doc/authors.md

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+Zcash Contributors
+==================
+
+Jack Grigg (264)
+Simon Liu (191)
+Sean Bowe (162)
+Taylor Hornby (65)
+Daira Hopwood (62)
+Kevin Gallagher (38)
+Jay Graber (28)
+Nathan Wilcox (10)
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (9)
+Pieter Wuille (8)
+Cory Fields (7)
+ITH4Coinomia (4)
+David Mercer (4)
+4ZEC (4)
+Patrick Strateman (3)
+Paige Peterson (3)
+MarcoFalke (3)
+Alfie John (3)
+aniemerg (2)
+Robert C. Seacord (2)
+Joe Turgeon (2)
+Gregory Maxwell (2)
+kazcw (1)
+fanquake (1)
+Tom Ritter (1)
+S. Matthew English (1)
+Philip Kaufmann (1)
+Louis Nyffenegger (1)
+Lars-Magnus Skog (1)
+Gaurav Rana (1)
+Ethan Heilman (1)
+Chirag Davé (1)
+Cameron Boehmer (1)
+Bryan Stitt (1)
+Alex (1)

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.11.2.z6.md

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-Jack Grigg:
+Jack Grigg (4):
       Equihash: Only compare the first n/(k+1) bits when sorting.
       Randomise the nonce in the block header.
       Clear mempool before using it for benchmark test, fix parameter name.
       Fix memory leak in large tx benchmark.
 
-Sean Bowe:
+Sean Bowe (5):
       Increase block size to 2MB and update performance test.
       Make sigop limit `20000` just as in Bitcoin, ignoring our change to the blocksize limit.
       Remove the mainnet checkpoints.
       Fix performance test for block verification.
       Make `validatelargetx` test more accurate.
 
-Taylor Hornby:
+Taylor Hornby (1):
       Add example mock test of CheckTransaction.
 
-aniemerg:
+aniemerg (1):
       Suppress Libsnark Debugging Info.
-

doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.11.2.z9.md

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-
-Sean Bowe:
+Sean Bowe (6):
       Change memo field size and relocate `ciphertexts` field of JoinSplit description.
       Implement zkSNARK compression.
       Perform curve parameter initialization at start of gtest suite.
@@ -7,7 +6,7 @@ Sean Bowe:
       Enable MONTGOMERY_OUTPUT everywhere.
       Update proving/verifying keys.
 
-Jack Grigg:
+Jack Grigg (11):
       Add support for spending keys to the basic key store.
       Merge AddSpendingKeyPaymentAddress into AddSpendingKey to simplify API.
       Add methods for byte array expansion and compression.
@@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ Jack Grigg:
       Add separate lock for SpendingKey key store operations.
       Test conversion between solution indices and minimal representation.
 
-Daira Hopwood:
+Daira Hopwood (6):
       Move bigint arithmetic implementations to libsnark.
       Add mostly-static checks on consistency of Equihash parameters, MAX_HEADERS_RESULTS, and MAX_PROTOCOL_MESSAGE_LENGTH.
       Change some asserts in equihash.cpp to be static.
@@ -28,30 +27,29 @@ Daira Hopwood:
       Increment version numbers for z9 release.
       Add these release notes for z9.
 
-Taylor Hornby:
+Taylor Hornby (5):
       Disable hardening when building for coverage reports.
       Upgrade libsodium for AVX2-detection bugfix.
       Fix inconsistent optimization flags; single source of truth.
       Add -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing; fix libzcash flags.
       Use libsodium's s < L check, instead checking that libsodium checks that.
 
-Simon Liu:
+Simon Liu (3):
       Fixes #1193 so that during verification benchmarking it does not unncessarily create thousands of CTransaction objects.
       Closes #701 by adding documentation about the Payment RPC interface.
       Add note about zkey and encrypted wallets.
 
-Gaurav Rana:
+Gaurav Rana (1):
       Update zcash-cli stop message.
 
-Tom Ritter:
+Tom Ritter (1):
       Clarify comment about nonce space for Note Encryption.
 
-Robert C. Seacord:
+Robert C. Seacord (1):
       Memory safety and correctness fixes found in NCC audit.
 
-Patrick Strateman (merged by Taylor Hornby):
+Patrick Strateman (1):
       Pull in some DoS mitigations from upstream. (#1258)
 
-Wladimir J. van der Laan:
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (1):
       net: correctly initialize nMinPingUsecTime.
-

doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.2.md

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ ITH4Coinomia (2):
 S. Matthew English (1):
       enforcing consistency 'tor' to 'Tor'
 
-Sean Bowe (1):
+Sean Bowe (2):
       Write R1CS output to file in GenerateParams.
+      1.0.2 release.
 
-Simon (4):
+Simon Liu (4):
       Fixes #1762 segfault when miner is interrupted.
       Fixes #1779 so that sending to multiple zaddrs no longer fails.
       Add GenIdentity, an identity function for MappedShuffle.
       Add transaction size and zaddr output limit checks to z_sendmany.
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