Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Recently, drupal.org announced a change in maintainer credit. Not mentioned, but apparently at the same time, a new method of building the credit in the code for a commit was added at the bottom of issues. This has various check boxes, along with the ominous-sounding "Omit author." There doesn't appear to be any link to instructions on how to use this new feature.
In the past, I've noticed that some commits have given credit to an issue reporter who was not part of authoring the patch, via a vertical bar followed by their name, that is:
patch author 1, patch author 2 | issue reporter
There doesn't seem to be any provision for this in the new d.o feature. Has there been a change in recommended policy, was reporter credit always outside the credit policy, or was this part of the credit feature inadvertently omitted?
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charles belovComment #2
charles belovComment #3
drummThe bottom of the fields does have a link:
That's the most relevant documentation I could find. The issue for adding the fieldset has many more details, #2295411: Auto-generate Git attribution info / commit messages on Drupal.org
The
| issue reporterwas added by Dreditor, but I don't think it was documented on Drupal.org as "official". There are a few followup issues, including #2323715: [policy, no patch] Determine format for commit credit for individuals/organizations/customers for changing the format.Comment #4
yesct commented#2230579: [meta] Allow crediting reviewers (and other non-coders) as first-class contributors
"...and other non-coders..."
is somewhat related.