Hi everyone. The contributors list in the README seems fairly out of date. Updating it manually when a new contributor gets their PR merged is pretty easy to forget, it's basically the same issue we had with CHANGELOG.md. How would people feel about adding a script to generate the contributor list for each release? We could look at JIRA assignees, or commit authors or some other option?
Took a quick look at a couple of other Apache projects. Zookeeper links to their JIRA on their credits page instead of providing a separate list of contributors https://zookeeper.apache.org/credits.html#contributors. Spark generates a list of contributors as part of their release notes https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-2-0-0.html#credits from commit authors since last release https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/dev/create-release/generate-contributors.py . I'd be for the Spark solution if it doesn't introduce too much hassle in the release process. Does anyone have an opinion on this?
