@author tag not allowed at all by no-redundant-jsdoc

[petersandor]

Bug Report

• TSLint version: 5.13.1
• TypeScript version: 3.6.2
• Running TSLint via: VSCode

Reproduction using TSLint Playground

• cannot be reproduced at TSLint Playground since it uses older TS version which doesn't support JSDocAuthorTag

TypeScript code being linted

/**
 * @author John Doe <j.doe@example.com>
 */
class TestClass {

}

with tslint.json configuration:

"rules": {
  "no-redundant-jsdoc": true
}

Actual behavior

Error thrown:

The 'no-redundant-jsdoc' rule threw an error in 'x.ts':
Error: Unexpected tag kind: JSDocAuthorTag
    at checkTag (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/rules/noRedundantJsdocRule.js:105:23)
    at cb (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/rules/noRedundantJsdocRule.js:62:25)
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at walk (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/rules/noRedundantJsdocRule.js:55:34)
    at Rule.AbstractRule.applyWithFunction (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/language/rule/abstractRule.js:39:9)
    at Rule.apply (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/rules/noRedundantJsdocRule.js:35:21)
    at Linter.applyRule (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/linter.js:214:29)
    at /Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/linter.js:155:85
    at Object.flatMap (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/utils.js:160:29)
    at Linter.getAllFailures (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/linter.js:155:32)
    at Linter.lint (/Users/xxxxxx/Projects/test/angular/node_modules/tslint/lib/linter.js:110:33)
    at TsLintRunner.doRun (/Users/xxxxxx/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin-1.2.2/node_modules/typescript-tslint-plugin/out/runner/index.js:224:20)
    at TsLintRunner.runTsLint (/Users/xxxxxx/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin-1.2.2/node_modules/typescript-tslint-plugin/out/runner/index.js:80:21)
    at TSLintPlugin.getSemanticDiagnostics (/Users/xxxxxx/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin-1.2.2/node_modules/typescript-tslint-plugin/out/plugin.js:108:38)
    at Proxy.intercept.getSemanticDiagnostics.args (/Users/xxxxxx/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin-1.2.2/node_modules/typescript-tslint-plugin/out/plugin.js:73:25)
    at IOSession.Session.semanticCheck (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:134027:52)
    at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:134068:31
    at MultistepOperation.executeAction (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:133247:25)
    at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:133228:100
    at IOSession.Session.executeWithRequestId (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:135169:28)
    at Object.executeWithRequestId (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:133836:87)
    at Immediate._onImmediate (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js:133228:41)
    at runCallback (timers.js:694:18)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:665:5)
    at processImmediate (timers.js:647:5)tslint(1)

Expected behavior

No error should be thrown. JSDocAuthorTag support was added just recently in TypeScript in microsoft/TypeScript#29717, it should be recognized by TSLint

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

🤖 Beep boop! 👉 TSLint is deprecated 👈 and you should switch to typescript-eslint! 🤖

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