[Anthony-G]

The git commit you linked would have required the committer to explicitly remove the `AUTHORS` file from the code-base. If a file is already being tracked, it won’t stop being tracked if a corresponding pattern is added to `.gitignore`. Removing the file in this way was most likely intentional and not erroneous.

[Anthony-G]

From the most recent response to this issue, it seems that the file was removed with the intention that the list of authors could be programmatically generated: https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/1703#issuecomment-5965...

I also see that Gabriel has now been credited in the project’s `README.rst`.