My fault completely - I forgot to include the '--author' option in the
commits when closing pull requests. Will do this from now on...

Thanks for catching it Suneel!

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am seeing that the original author of a PR is being wiped out while
> committing the PRs to the codebase.
>
> The 'git commit' command to retain the original author as contributor is:
>
> git commit --author <contributor_email> -a -m "PIRK-XXXX description
> closes apache/pirk#ZZ"
>
>
> This way the original author would show up amongst the project contributors
> on github (and build community 😏 )
>

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