Suspicious contributor to b2 and b3

[Edward K. Ream]

I just noticed  "root" is listed as a contributor to both b2 and b3. This looks suspicious to me, but there may be an innocent explanation.

I have blocked "root" and reported "root" as possible malware. Does anyone have an opinion about "root"?

Does anyone know how I could remove "root" as a contributor?

Edward

[tbp1...@gmail.com]

Can you use "blame" to find out if "root" has any commits?  It might be an innocent mistake.  Maybe someone logged into a Git helper app and the app automatically picked up the "root" name.  Well, maybe, just being charitable.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:43 AM tbp1...@gmail.com <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you use "blame" to find out if "root" has any commits?  It might be an innocent mistake.  Maybe someone logged into a Git helper app and the app automatically picked up the "root" name.  Well, maybe, just being charitable.

Happily, this is my doing. I just got this response:

"Thanks for getting in touch. It is indeed quite benign and fixable! It looks as though you used @root in your release notes, which is typically a way of crediting users. If you put some backticks around it, the reference to the user root will be removed."

Whew!

Edward