Deprecation warning for .Site.Author: confusing replacement advice

[deining]

I just built my site with newly released version 0.124.0 and got this deprecation warning (my site theme used Site.Author in the themes list.rss.xml template):

INFO  deprecated: .Site.Author was deprecated in Hugo v0.124.0 
and will be removed in a future release.
Use taxonomies instead.

Only after reading this comment, I realized that the solution to fix this in the theme was to use .Site.Params.Author. Therefore I propose to alter this message to:

Use .Site.Params.Author instead.

Or am I overlooking something? Then we should at least add to use .Site.Params.Author as solution:

Implement taxonomy 'author' or use .Site.Params.Author instead.

Reference: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/deprecation-warning-for-site-author-confusing-replacement-advice/48874

[thomasweitzel]

I get the same INFO message: deprecated: .Site.Author was deprecated in Hugo v0.124.0 .... Even though I don't use it in any of my templates. Additionally, I only have two places where I use .Params.Author.

It's just an INFO, so I can ignore it, but it's confusing still. Glad they will fix it.

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