I have read the git thread related to the merge request. I don’t see what’s the big deal. You have a user model that already contain fields like user’s full name, location, … among others and all this developer did was adding yet another optional field called date of birth. This does nothing to verify user’s age and enforce nothing. They’ve stressed that repeatedly in the comments. What that does is making it easy for a Linux distro to store user’s birthday - should they wish to do so - and making that bit of info accessible to running apps so that each app can do what it wants with it. User’s fullname and location are already there which are also optional so what’s the big deal?