Hi Everyone, The recent bom property issue reminded me we still have not followed up on harmonizing our author list in our pom files. Currently, we do not list all of the developers under authors for each project.
Groovy's pom (https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.groovy/groovy) enumerates all authors and assigns a role to indicate if they're still active / founder / legacy. Groovy uses the following roles: 1. Founder 2. Developer 3. Developer Emeritus Going by https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/grails-7-released/, the following would be founders: 1. Graeme Rocher 2. Guillaume LaForge 3. Steven Devijver 4. Dierk König But I don't see #2 & #3 in the commit history. I assume we should only include those in the commit history? As for developer vs developer emeritus, I think we should consider anyone who hasn't contributed in the last 12 months as developer emeritus. Everyone else would just be listed as a developer. What are people's thoughts on this proposal? -James
