feat: Add authors field to info.json for questions

[SethPoulsen]

As part of shipping the question sharing featues (#9397), we would like to ensure that quesiton authors are able to get credit for their work, and so we are creating the ability to denote the authors of a question in the JSON, which will automatically be copied when people copy questions.

Some remaining items to discuss about this before pushing:

• do we want an authors table as well?
• what should be the piece of information we de-dupe authors across? email? (and if people use different names with the same email, what do we do then?)
• what syntax do we want to use to allow people to put names and emails into these strings?

[SethPoulsen]

why do the tests have entirely separate type declarations for the JSON file schemas than the main codebase has in course-db.ts?

[SethPoulsen]

When I run make update-database-description in the docker container, it changes the owner flag on these files to be the root user. Any way around this?

[SethPoulsen]

or maybe it just changes the permissions on them somehow? anyway, whatever it is doing, git is not happy about it

[jonatanschroeder]

I have an alias in my shell that runs make update-database-description followed by sudo chown -R jonatan.jonatan ~/pl/database. If you find a way to make the files in docker containers run as a specific user let me know, I haven't been able to do that.

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[jonatanschroeder]

I was looking at old issues, and #1824 may be resolved here.

[SethPoulsen]

thanks for linking that Jonaton. It looks like some of the decision decisions around this have changed since then, we should discuss this more probably.