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?

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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.

[mwest1066]

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.

I'd still really like to figure out how to support "claiming" of authorship in some way, or otherwise understand how we are going to handle the question of who can view authorship statistics.

[SethPoulsen]

figure out how to support "claiming" of authorship in some way

the simplest way, I think, is to just have a form where you input an email. Then we email a report to that email address. If you truly do own that email, you get the report!

If authors were actually linked to UIDs, that would be another way to make it happen. I think we should discuss again why we do/don't want to do that.