A person credited with a link in one place and a bare name in another
reads as two different people and drops the reader's path to them.
sys-svc-engine showed it in two adjacent lines: the same name once bare,
once linked.
The new credits-attribution lint requires a name linked in any Credits
section to carry that link everywhere, and rejects one name pointing at
two URLs. It found 13 offenders, including a second contributor whose
attribution had drifted in test-e2e-cli.
The generator produced the defect on every run: its context carried
application_author but never application_author_url, so the template
always took the unlinked branch. Existing READMEs kept their correct
Credits because the generator only fills missing sections, which is why
239 roles were right and 12 wrong.
The name to URL map is derived rather than declared: galaxy_info.company
names the project owner, not the role author (web-app-mattermost is
authored by Alejandro Roman Ibanez but lists Kevin Veen-Birkenbach as
company), so only the Credits lines themselves carry the mapping.
Generator and lint share that derivation and cannot drift apart, and a
new contributor needs one linked credit rather than a code change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
kevinveenbirkenbachandClaude Opus 4.8