FR: Author in IOK

[w00dbury]

I'm wondering if you'd consider supporting and utilizing the author field in Sigma as a way of publicly recognizing contributors in IOKs.

[IlluminatiFish]

I believe @bradleyjkemp already has this idea on his radar. As per #60 (comment) the author field in IOK rules will be omitted and it will be replaced by a GitHub API call to find the author of the rule instead.

[w00dbury]

I believe @bradleyjkemp already has this idea on his radar. As per #60 (comment) the author field in IOK rules will be omitted and it will be replaced by a GitHub API call to find the author of the rule instead.

Clearly my searching was insufficient. Thanks for pointing that out.

[bradleyjkemp]

Having said that, the license on this repo does allow people to take these rules and use them elsewhere (which wouldn't include any future GitHub-API author stuff) so perhaps we should allow the author field?

[bradleyjkemp]

Let's go for it, rule-writers can use the author field for whatever attribution they want (name, handle, etc.)

We'll figure out later the etiquette for e.g. how much tweaking of a rule is enough to add yourself to the author line :)

[IlluminatiFish]

Time to retrofit the existing rules :)