none of the plugins i have been using for the past 7 months have an author in the yml and i have never gotten a nag error
in fact i think there are only two mandatory fields in the yml, and author(s) isnt one of them

Why should you, because it gives a (nag author) error.

At least put one...

No, It's not mandatory. (Three are required, btw)

What this issue should be about though, is the error that happens WHEN they get the nag author. I was going to include it in the last post but forgot to look it up.

"This plugin is not properly shutting down it's async tasks when it is being reloaded. This may cause conflicts with the newly loaded version of the plugin"

Which (the author of this issue) posts in #109. (This should be closed)

Wrong place, why should we, and there's quite a lot of authors...