Development record
Tracked files name the organisation's members and collaborators: about 63 files carry a member's GitHub login or display name, in credits, the plugin manifests, the code-owners file, the mailmap, the committed identity pin, test fixtures, attribution cases, research notes and records. The product thinker ruled on 2026-10-29 that a login appears only in commit metadata (the author and committer of a pushed commit), never in the content of prose or code, and that people are named by role. The one exception the product thinker kept is the copyright line in LICENSE, which still names its holder.
issueresolvedmajoriss-2610290855523061
Tracked files name the organisation's members and collaborators: about 63 files carry a member's GitHub login or display name, in credits, the plugin manifests, the code-owners file, the mailmap, the committed identity pin, test fixtures, attribution cases, research notes and records. The product thinker ruled on 2026-10-29 that a login appears only in commit metadata (the author and committer of a pushed commit), never in the content of prose or code, and that people are named by role. The one exception the product thinker kept is the copyright line in LICENSE, which still names its holder.
Grounds
- pursued: we expect a scan of every tracked file outside the licence to find no member's login or name; any hit outside commit metadata shows it wrong
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610290855523061 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | resolved |
| severity | major |
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- dcn-26102908570204882026-10-29 — Decided by the product thinker on 2026-10-29: the copyright line in LICENSE keeps naming its holder, as the one exception to the rule that no member's login or name appears in tracked files. The MIT licence requires the notice to be kept in copies, and who it names is the copyright holder's own call. Everything else names people by role, the organisation or a standard persona (iss-2610290855523061).
- dcn-26102910141358342026-10-29 — Decided by the technical facilitator on delegation, 2026-10-29: CITATION.cff and the README's citation block name the organisation ([redacted-user]) as the work's author in place of a person, under the product thinker's ruling that no member's name appears in tracked files and that LICENSE is the only exception. Putting a personal name back later is a one-line revert in each file if the product thinker wants one (iss-2610290855523061).