In order to amend the authors in these commits, we will need to generate new commits that are in parallel of the current chain. Essentially it means we will need to regenerate all these commits which leads to a different(parallel) chain, and force push to master and rewrite the commit history.
Force push to the master could cause quite a lot of problems (we will first need to ask ASF to remove the branch protection in the master, and run the rewrite, then finally ask everyone in the community to resync to the master, normal sync back from master to forks will break because of the diverged chain).
I want to say that the community and committers should are made aware of the github problem. More importantly, we evaluate contributions in a comprehensive manner rather than directly counting the loc, so hopefully the few wrong commit stats won’t affect the overall recognition of everyone’s controbutions
It is unfortunate that we cannot amend the info easily. Given the few commits involved, and potential new problems that can be caused by force pushing to the master, perhaps we should continue with the current commit history. Would also love to hear from everyone’s thoughts