Plugin author not shown in napari-hub

[marcel-goldschen-ohm]

Description

The author name is not shown for the plugin napari-cosmos-ts despite the author name being correctly identified in PyPI.

The author metadata is defined in pyproject.toml as (replace "..." with actual name and email):

[project]
authors = [
    {name = "...", email = "..."},
]

Expected Results

I expected napari-hub to find the author name given that it is identified on PyPI.

It seems silly to have to include another config file in the repo just for this metadata, but if that is the only solution, can someone please give me an example of what such a file should look like.

[manasaV3]

Hi there,
Digging into this, I believe the reason for the author name not making it to the site is because of how the data from pyproject.toml is parsed.

When both email and name are provided, the value goes in Author-email or Maintainer-email as appropriate, with the format {name} <{email}>.

ref: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/pyproject-toml/#authors-maintainers

This leaves the author values as None, and we currently don't surface any author details for cases where the author name is None.

Until this bug is prioritized to be fixed on our end, a quick way to fix this would be to make the name and email into different entries as follows:

[project]
authors = [
    {name = "..."}, 
    {email = "..."},
]

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[marcel-goldschen-ohm]

Thanks @manasaV3.