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-- name: Konrad Hinsen
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-- name: Aaron Parsons
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-- name: lhole
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-  email: Matthias.Geier@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2015-11-07 12:26:34
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-- name: Liu JiaLin
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-  email: jaln.liu@ttu.edu
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-- name: James Tocknell
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-- name: Kit Choi
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-- name: John Tyree
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-  first_commit: 2019-06-18 07:43:59
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-- name: Ghislain Antony Vaillant
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-  github: Anthchirp
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-- name: unknown
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-- name: syhw
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-- name: Seth R Johnson
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-- name: Mikhail
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-- name: Nils Werner
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-- name: Ulrik Kofoed Pedersen
-  email: ulrik.pedersen@diamond.ac.uk
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-  first_commit: 2015-01-29 11:15:21
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-- name: Peter Hill
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-- name: John Benediktsson
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-  first_commit: 2019-06-17 02:20:08
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-- name: Yuri D'Elia
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-- name: Thomas Kluyver
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-- name: Machine User
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-  first_commit: 2019-09-19 13:43:19
-  github: pierlauro
-- name: Jordan Farquhar
-  email: jordan.a.farquhar@gmail.com
-  aliases:
-  - jordan-farq
-  num_commits: 4
-  first_commit: 2020-02-05 02:54:41
-  github: jordan-farq
-
-- name: Clemens Weninger
-  email: clemens.weninger@maxiv.lu.se
-  alternate_emails:
-  - clemens@m-info.de
-  num_commits: 4
-  first_commit: 2020-03-21 16:57:10
-  github: weninc
-- name: Alex Migon
-  email: alexmigon@gmail.com
-  github: alemigo
-  aliases:
-  - alemigo
-  - alemig
-  alternate_emails:
-  - alemigo@github.com
-  - 32462069+alemigo@users.noreply.github.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-04-20 15:53:50
-- name: Alex Porter
-  email: bomber8013@gmail.com
-  aliases:
-  - bomber8013
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-10-04 02:54:41
-  github: bomber8013
-- name: Lisandro Dalcin
-  email: dalcinl@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-05-19 09:31:52
-- name: jhofinger
-  email: jonathan.hofinger@gmx.de
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-04-02 15:31:47
-  github: jhofinger
-- name: Robin De Schepper
-  email: robin.deschepper93@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 4
-  first_commit: 2019-09-20 09:09:01
-  github: Helveg
-- name: John Readey
-  email: jreadey@hdfgroup.org
-  num_commits: 13
-  first_commit: 2019-09-20 16:07:52
-- name: Aaron Meurer
-  email: asmeurer@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-02-21 22:05:22
-  github: asmeurer
-- name: Alexei Colin
-  email: acolin@isi.edu
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-05-01 10:45:14
-- name: Guinnes Singh
-  email: gswebspace@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2019-12-21 09:54:21
-  github: gswebspace
-- name: egachen
-  email: ramon.chen2014@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 3
-  first_commit: 2019-10-11 14:00:03
-  github: egachen
-- name: Jonathan Okasinski
-  email: nitrocalcite@users.noreply.github.com
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-06-26 20:07:45
-- name: Marco Paolini
-  email: markopaolini@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2019-07-10 22:54:59
-- name: Silas-Asamoah
-  email: silasbempong@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 5
-  first_commit: 2019-09-25 23:56:36
-- name: miketrumpis
-  email: mtrumpis@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 6
-  first_commit: 2020-07-13 20:14:40
-  github: miketrumpis
-- name: Gary Yendell
-  email: gary.yendell@diamond.ac.uk
-  num_commits: 3
-  first_commit: 2019-01-11 15:04:43
-- name: tmichela
-  email: thomas.michelat@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 5
-  first_commit: 2020-08-04 19:00:17
-- name: pierlauro
-  email: pierlauro.sciarelli@bsc.es
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2019-11-07 09:13:32
-  github: pierlauro
-- name: Vladimir Brankov
-  email: vbrankov@janestreet.com
-  num_commits: 6
-  first_commit: 2019-12-18 20:04:06
-  github: vbrankov
-- name: aporter
-  email: aporter@blueorigin.com
-  num_commits: 4
-  first_commit: 2020-10-05 04:10:09
-- name: mattip
-  email: matti.picus@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-03-15 22:53:26
-  github: mattip
-- name: Cyril Danilevski
-  email: cydanil@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 15
-  first_commit: 2020-04-06 17:12:26
-  github: cydanil
-- name: Philipp A
-  email: flying-sheep@web.de
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-01-23 16:45:45
-- name: Anna Padee
-  email: anna.padee@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 5
-  first_commit: 2019-09-19 10:58:09
-- name: Csaba Kertész
-  email: csaba.kertesz@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-06-28 14:39:06
-  github: kecsap
-- name: Thomas Michelat
-  email: 32831491+tmichela@users.noreply.github.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-08-05 10:45:15
-  github: tmichela
-- name: Luke Tudge
-  email: luketudge@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2019-11-28 21:10:28
-  github: luketudge
-- name: nitrocalcite
-  email: jonathan.okasinski@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 5
-  first_commit: 2020-06-25 19:13:09
-  github: nitrocalcite
-- name: Daniel Berke
-  email: berke.daniel@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 2
-  first_commit: 2019-10-27 10:43:48
-  github: DBerke
-- name: Kai Muehlbauer
-  email: kai.muehlbauer@uni-bonn.de
-  num_commits: 4
-  first_commit: 2019-12-12 12:17:00
-  github: kmuehlbauer
-- name: V. Armando Solé
-  email: sole@esrf.fr
-  alternate_emails:
-  - vasole@users.noreply.github.com
-  num_commits: 12
-  first_commit: 2019-09-19 13:06:48
-  github: vasole
-- name: Gang Chen
-  email: gang.chen@zenuity.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2019-10-11 13:25:05
-- name: Orion Poplawski
-  email: orion@nwra.com
-  num_commits: 5
-  first_commit: 2020-10-13 03:57:42
-  github: opoplawski
-- name: Kacper Kowalik
-  email: xarthisius.kk@gmail.com
-  aliases:
-  - Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius)
-  num_commit: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-10-31 18:30:45
-  github: Xarthisius
-  num_commits: 3
-- name: Dieter Weber
-  email: d.weber@fz-juelich.de
-  alternate_emails:
-  - d.weber@materials-scientist.com
-  aliases:
-  - uellue
-  num_commit: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-11-06 23:32:13
-  github: uellue
-  num_commits: 5
-- name: Satrajit Ghosh
-  email: satra@mit.edu
-  alternate_emails:
-  - satrajit.ghosh@gmail.com
-  aliases:
-  - satra
-  num_commit: 2
-  first_commit: 2020-11-12 08:35:38
-  github: satra
-  num_commits: 24
-- name: Yaroslav Halchenko
-  email: debian@onerussian.com
-  alternate_emails:
-  - yarikoptic@gmail.com
-  aliases:
-  - yarikoptic
-  num_commit: 2
-  first_commit: 2021-01-04 17:28:58
-  github: yarikoptic
-  num_commits: 3
-- name: Bruce Merry
-  email: bmerry@ska.ac.za
-  alternate_emails:
-  - 1963944+bmerry@users.noreply.github.com
-  num_commit: 1
-  first_commit: 2021-01-18 09:30:28
-  github: bmerry
-  num_commits: 6
-- name: patiencedaur
-  email: patiencedaur@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2021-01-09 15:10:20
-  github: patiencedaur
-- name: Tim Gates
-  email: tim.gates@iress.com
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2020-12-29 19:51:32
-  github: timgates42
-- name: Thomas Donoghue
-  email: tdonoghue.research@gmail.com
-  alternate_emails:
-  - tdonoghue@ucsd.edu
-  aliases:
-  - Tom Donoghue
-  - Tom
-  num_commits: 4
-  first_commit: 2021-03-15 16:31:00
-  github: TomDonoghue
-- name: Samuel Dowling
-  email: samuel.dowling@protonmail.com
-  num_commits: 6
-  first_commit: 2021-05-11 10:15:56
-  github: samuel-emrys
-- name: Michał Górny
-  email: mgorny@gentoo.org
-  num_commits: 1
-  first_commit: 2021-04-12 10:48:16
-  github: mgorny
-- name: Simone Bacchio
-  email: s.bacchio@gmail.com
-  num_commits: 5
-  first_commit: 2021-07-07 15:52:51
-  github: sbacchio
-- name: Filipe Laíns
-  email: lains@riseup.net
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a848f2ed..000000000
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-All of the people who have made at least one contribution to h5py.
-Authors are sorted by number of commits.
-
-* Andrew Collette
-* Thomas Kluyver
-* Thomas A Caswell
-* James Tocknell
-* Jerome Kieffer
-* Chen
-* Aleksandar Jelenak
-* Андрей Парамонов
-* Darren Dale
-* Henri Payno
-* Thomas VINCENT
-* Pierlauro Sciarelli
-* Anthony Scopatz
-* Valentin Valls
-* Satrajit Ghosh
-* Ulrik Kofoed Pedersen
-* Stan West
-* Martin Raspaud
-* John Kirkham
-* Aaron Parsons
-* Julia Garriga Ferrer
-* Jerome Kieffer
-* Hameer Abbasi
-* Cyril Danilevski
-* John Readey
-* Lawrence Chan
-* V. Armando Solé
-* Andrey Paramonov
-* Yu Feng
-* Liu JiaLin
-* lhole
-* Ghislain Antony Vaillant
-* Seth R Johnson
-* Matthieu Brucher
-* Andrea Bedini
-* Martin Teichmann
-* Markus Gerstel
-* Axel Huebl
-* Pierre de Buyl
-* miketrumpis
-* Vladimir Brankov
-* Bruce Merry
-* Samuel Dowling
-* Florian Rathgeber
-* Chris Billington
-* Max Dietz
-* Silas-Asamoah
-* tmichela
-* Anna Padee
-* nitrocalcite
-* Orion Poplawski
-* Dieter Weber
-* Konrad Hinsen
-* Toon Verstraelen
-* Antony Lee
-* Machine User
-* Geoff Wright
-* Jordan Farquhar
-* Clemens Weninger
-* Robin De Schepper
-* aporter
-* Kai Muehlbauer
-* Thomas Donoghue
-* Kit Choi
-* lucasb-eyer
-* Matthew Brett
-* Dylan Nelson
-* Scott Sanderson
-* Matt Zwier
-* Charles Law
-* Chen Yufei
-* Simon Mutch
-* Christian Sachs
-* ebner
-* egachen
-* Gary Yendell
-* Kacper Kowalik
-* Yaroslav Halchenko
-* Sajid Ali
-* Noel Dawe
-* John Tyree
-* Christoph Gohlke
-* Carlos Pascual
-* Joe Jevnik
-* unknown
-* Jason Newton
-* Will Parkin
-* Devin
-* Nathan Goldbaum
-* paulmueller
-* Andy Salnikov
-* amcnicho
-* Jonah Bernhard
-* Antoine Pitrou
-* Joseph Kleinhenz
-* cclauss
-* Colin Gavin
-* Chris Meyer
-* Jakob Lombacher
-* Michael Boyle
-* Sam Mason
-* Peter H. Li
-* jialin
-* Alex Porter
-* jhofinger
-* Aaron Meurer
-* Guinnes Singh
-* Jonathan Okasinski
-* mattip
-* Daniel Berke
-* joydeep bhattacharjee
-* pharshalp
-* Matthias Geier
-* Eric Larson
-* Drew Parsons
-* Robert David Grant
-* JP Dehollain
-* chrisjbillington
-* Lars Viklund
-* Dan Guest
-* root
-* bpinsard
-* Barry Wardel
-* Evan Wright
-* Johannes Meixner
-* Marc Abramowitz
-* syhw
-* Stuart Berg
-* Michael V. DePalatis
-* Kwat
-* Mike Boyle
-* Peter Chang
-* Mikhail
-* Nils Werner
-* Peter Hill
-* John Benediktsson
-* Yuri D'Elia
-* Matthew Turk
-* Bradley M. Froehle
-* Dan Meliza
-* Artem Sanakoev
-* Matthias König
-* Adam J. Stewart
-* Kyle Sunden
-* Caleb Morse
-* Peter Colberg
-* James Clarke
-* Sam Toyer
-* Joe Zuntz
-* Greg Allen
-* Lawrence Mitchell
-* dkriegner
-* Jens Timmerman
-* Niru Maheswaranathan
-* Paco Hope
-* Felix Yan
-* Alex Migon
-* Lisandro Dalcin
-* Alexei Colin
-* Marco Paolini
-* pierlauro
-* Philipp A
-* Csaba Kertész
-* Thomas Michelat
-* Luke Tudge
-* Gang Chen
-* patiencedaur
-* Tim Gates
-* Michał Górny
diff --git a/rever.xsh b/rever.xsh
index 5e94ae38d..90581f86b 100644
--- a/rever.xsh
+++ b/rever.xsh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import re
 
 $PROJECT = $GITHUB_ORG = $GITHUB_REPO = 'h5py'
-$ACTIVITIES = ['authors', 'version_bump', 'changelog',
+$ACTIVITIES = ['version_bump', 'changelog',
                'tag', 'push_tag', 'ghrelease', 'pypi',
               ]
 #
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index ac2f66cbf..110f87acc 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -100,4 +100,4 @@ deps=
     lazyasd
     ruamel.yaml
 commands=
-    rever check --activities authors,version_bump,changelog
+    rever check --activities version_bump,changelog