Skip to content

docs: replace AUTHORS.md with GitHub contributors link#4582

Merged
appleboy merged 1 commit intomasterfrom
docs/remove-authors-md
Mar 15, 2026
Merged

docs: replace AUTHORS.md with GitHub contributors link#4582
appleboy merged 1 commit intomasterfrom
docs/remove-authors-md

Conversation

@appleboy
Copy link
Member

Summary

  • Remove manually maintained AUTHORS.md (400+ entries, no automation to keep current)
  • Add link to GitHub's built-in contributors page in the Contributing section of README.md, which is always up-to-date

Test plan

  • Confirm AUTHORS.md is deleted
  • Confirm README.md has the contributors link
  • Verify no other files reference AUTHORS.md (only tree_test.go has /src/AUTHORS which is unrelated test data)

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

AUTHORS.md was a manually maintained list of 400+ contributors that
had no automation to keep it current. Replace it with a link to
GitHub s built-in contributors page which is always up-to-date.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings March 15, 2026 06:32
Copy link
Contributor

Copilot AI left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Pull request overview

This PR removes the manually maintained AUTHORS.md file and instead points readers to GitHub’s always up-to-date contributors page from the README’s Contributing section.

Changes:

  • Update README.md Contributing section to link to https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/graphs/contributors.
  • Delete AUTHORS.md.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File Description
README.md Adds a contributors-page link in the Contributing section to replace the role of AUTHORS.md.
AUTHORS.md Removes the static, manually maintained author list.

💡 Add Copilot custom instructions for smarter, more guided reviews. Learn how to get started.

@appleboy appleboy added this to the v1.13 milestone Mar 15, 2026
@appleboy appleboy merged commit a749e4d into master Mar 15, 2026
29 checks passed
@appleboy appleboy deleted the docs/remove-authors-md branch March 15, 2026 06:35
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants