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+# Authors of apache/sedona
+
+## The List of Contributors sorted by number of commits (as of 2025-03-30 141a3682)
+
+   913 Jia Yu
+   167 John Bampton
+   130 Kristin Cowalcijk
+    57 Nilesh Gajwani
+    56 Furqaan Khan
+    40 jinxuan wu
+    36 Furqaanahmed Khan
+    35 zongsizhang
+    34 Kengo Seki
+    33 dependabot[bot]
+    28 Masha Basmanova
+    27 Pranav Toggi
+    27 Feng Zhang
+    26 Martin Andersson
+    23 Mohamed Sarwat
+    20 zongsi zhang
+    18 James Willis
+    18 Junhao Liu
+    17 Jinxuan Wu
+    16 gregleleu
+    14 Paweł Kociński
+    13 Netanel Malka
+    10 Adam Binford
+    10 Douglas Dennis
+    10 kanchanchy
+     9 Matthew Powers
+     8 Sachio Wakai
+     8 Yitao Li
+     8 Mo Sarwat
+     7 zongsi.zhang
+     6 Ana Caroline Ferreira
+     6 Magdalena
+     6 Paweł Tokaj
+     5 Kontinuation
+     5 Erni Durdevic
+     4 Omkar Kaptan
+     4 Dewey Dunnington
+     3 Avshalom Orenstein
+     3 Kanchan Chowdhury
+     3 Kelly-Ann Dolor
+     3 Tanel Kiis
+     3 Wrussia
+     3 Michael Merg
+     2 Anton Peniaziev
+     2 BarbieQkiller
+     2 Brian Rice
+     2 Dan
+     2 Dan Corbiani
+     2 Emmanuel Ferdman
+     2 HuiWang
+     2 Lucas C
+     2 Merijn
+     2 Paul Wu
+     2 Pawel
+     2 Pawel Kocinski
+     2 Sebastian Eckweiler
+     2 StepSecurity Bot
+     2 Zhenghua Gao
+     2 aggunr
+     2 awadhesh singh
+     2 chenpengchuan
+     2 freamdx
+     2 jiayuasu
+     2 shantanuaggarwal2695
+     2 sshiv012
+     2 willbowditch
+     2 Akshay Gogeri
+     2 Kurtis Seebaldt
+     1 AMRIT BHASKAR
+     1 Alex Ott
+     1 Amir Tallap
+     1 Arindam Jain
+     1 Artem
+     1 Dane Springmeyer
+     1 Dimitris Bilidas
+     1 Elephantusparvus
+     1 Guilhem de Viry
+     1 Hannah Chi
+     1 Haode Du
+     1 HarryZhu
+     1 Hemendu Roy
+     1 Hersh Gupta
+     1 Hongbo Miao
+     1 Ilya Zverev
+     1 James
+     1 Jonathan Leitschuh
+     1 Jordan Perr-Sauer
+     1 Jozef Dúc
+     1 Juan Ignacio Fulponi
+     1 Julien
+     1 Karthick Narendran
+     1 Kartikey
+     1 Keivan Shahida
+     1 Kevin Bohinski
+     1 Lenno Nagel
+     1 Mariano Gonzalez
+     1 Max Base
+     1 Maxime Petazzoni
+     1 Mikael Vaaltola
+     1 Mohammad Lotfi Akbarabadi
+     1 Niklas Løvenholdt Petersen (Maersk)
+     1 Nikolay Gorylenko
+     1 Oliver Kennedy
+     1 Onkar Pandit
+     1 Pavan
+     1 Phoenix Daddy
+     1 Pooja Kulkarni
+     1 R B Krishna
+     1 Rishabh Mishra
+     1 Semen Komissarov
+     1 Sergey Nuyanzin
+     1 Sergii Mikhtoniuk
+     1 Serhuela
+     1 Shi-Hao Liu
+     1 Sébastien Diemer
+     1 Tejesh Reddy
+     1 The Gitter Badger
+     1 Tongxing Ren
+     1 Varsha Ravindra
+     1 Venkata Pankaj Kodavandlapalli
+     1 Vinoo Ganesh
+     1 Xiangyun Huang
+     1 ashar
+     1 davidkell
+     1 gmaraswa
+     1 golfalot
+     1 mjohns-databricks
+     1 naharon2210
+     1 ngaur9
+     1 ruanqizhen
+     1 sagar1993
+     1 strump
+     1 the-sea
+     1 tmodi7
+     1 tociek
+     1 ttomasz
+     1 wendrickje
diff --git a/tools/scripts/generate_authors.py b/tools/scripts/generate_authors.py
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+import shutil
+import re
+from datetime import datetime
+from collections import defaultdict
+import subprocess  # nosec B404
+
+
+def get_git_command():
+    git_path = shutil.which("git")
+    if not git_path:
+        raise EnvironmentError("Git executable not found in system PATH.")
+    return git_path
+
+
+def get_contributors():
+    git = get_git_command()
+    try:
+        output = subprocess.check_output(
+            [git, "shortlog", "-sne", "--all"], encoding="utf-8"
+        )  # nosec B603
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+        raise RuntimeError("Failed to get git shortlog output.") from e
+
+    lines = output.strip().split("\n")
+    contributors = defaultdict(int)
+
+    for line in lines:
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+
+        parts = line.strip().split("\t")
+        if len(parts) != 2:
+            continue
+
+        count = int(parts[0].strip())
+        name_email = parts[1].strip()
+
+        name_match = re.match(r"^([^<]+)", name_email)
+        name = name_match.group(1).strip() if name_match else ""
+
+        username_match = re.search(r"\(@([^)]+)\)", name_email)
+        username = f"@{username_match.group(1)}" if username_match else ""
+
+        key = (name, username)
+        contributors[key] += count
+
+    result = []
+    for (name, username), count in contributors.items():
+        result.append(
+            {
+                "count": count,
+                "name": name,
+                "username": username,
+            }
+        )
+
+    return result
+
+
+def write_authors_file(contributors, filename="AUTHORS"):
+    today = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+    git = get_git_command()
+    try:
+        hash_output = subprocess.check_output(
+            [git, "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD"], encoding="utf-8"
+        ).strip()  # nosec
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+        raise RuntimeError("Failed to get git commit hash.") from e
+
+    with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        f.write("# Authors of apache/sedona\n\n")
+        f.write(
+            f"## The List of Contributors sorted by number of commits (as of {today} {hash_output})\n\n"
+        )
+
+        for contributor in contributors:
+            count = contributor["count"]
+            name = contributor["name"]
+            username = contributor["username"]
+            line = f"{count:6} {name}"
+            if username:
+                line += f" {username}"
+            f.write(line.rstrip() + "\n")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    contributors = get_contributors()
+    contributors.sort(key=lambda x: x["count"], reverse=True)
+    write_authors_file(contributors)
+    print("AUTHORS file has been generated.")