Discussion: Should we keep CONTRIBUTORS.md

[mkaz]

During the update of the main README file in #19743, @youknowriad brought up if we should keep the contributors file here

I wonder if it's time to retire that file. I understand its purpose (non-code contributions) but it's a challenge to keep up to date and I'm not sure the difference with code contributors is huge. (anyway a separate discussion)

This ticket is here to open the discussion. My two cents is to remove, it is a confusing file and not accurate. The majority of people in the file are also on the contributors tab within Github, also do we need the mapping of usernames Github => WordPress?

Open to suggestions for ways to honor and show our appreciation to non-code contributors who are valuable to the project.

[mkaz]

This ticket was brought up in today's core-editor chat by @Soean

Questions raised:

• Was it ever supposed to be used for code contributors in the first place?
• Is there an alternative place where contributors can get credited? if I google "Gutenberg contributors" it's the first link, and other links aren't very relevant
• The contributors page on Github only shows the top 100 contributors for the selected time range.

Suggestions:

• Maybe we remove code contributors from the file, and only list non-code contributors and add a link to Github contributor list
• Could we use something like: https://allcontributors.org/

[youknowriad]

This file was just removed.

I forgot about the existence of this issue.