Consider distinction between package authors and collaborators

[kenkellner]

See https://github.com/rbchan/unmarked/pull/172#issuecomment-605958256

Some R maintainers provided guidelines in this paper:

https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2012-1/RJournal_2012-1_Hornik~et~al.pdf

"aut" (Author): Full authors who have made substantial contributions to the package and should show up in the package citation."

"ctb" (Contributor): Authors who have made smaller contributions (such as code patches etc.) but should not show up in the package citation.

"cre" (Creator): Package maintainer.

[rbchan]

Those guidelines sound good to me. Here is what I suggest:

Author: Ian Fiske, Richard Chandler, David Miller, Andy Royle, Jeff Hostetler, Rebecca Hutchinson, Adam Smith, Ken Kellner

Contributor: Marc Kery (and several others who have contributed code. I would have to go through the git log to find all their names)

[kenkellner]

Output of git shortlog -sne, excluding people you already mentioned:

     9  Mike Meredith <mmeredith@wcsmsia>
     7  aurielfournier <aurielfournier@gmail.com>
     4  Ariel Muldoon <ariel.muldoon@oregonstate.edu>
     1  Chris Baker <ccmbaker@fas.harvard.edu>
     1  Stefan Theussl <stefan.theussl@wu.ac.at>

[rbchan]

I wonder if some folks contributed to branches that weren't pulled into master? If you look at Insights > Contributors on github, Ariel Muldoon, Chris Baker, and Stefan Theussl don't appear.

[kenkellner]

That git command should only summarize commits from the master branch. I think Github's collaborator page only lists the 10 authors with the most code contributed.

If I search across all branches:

git shortlog -s -n --all --no-merges

I get the same list with one additional unknown person:

     1  fukayak <fukayak99@gmail.com>

[rbchan]

Ah okay, let's trust git then, and not github's tool. And we can ignore folks that didn't contribute to master.