Add contributors

[xzyfer]

Although the bower spec supports authors, it does not officially support contributors which I think is an important distinction.

There are a plethora of ways repo/project owners use to give credit to contributors

• CONTRIBUTORS file
• direction mentions in READMEs
• links to Github's contributors tab (can be misleading)
• npm's contributors array

I'd love to see spec writers encourage a common way to give credit where credit is due. I also do not feel that authors should serve to address both groups. Unless of cause if the authors key were to be renamed to contributors.

FWIW this is a distinction the bower website itself appears to make.

[eddiemonge]

I feel like adding contibutors to the spec is too much noise. its in package.json and some of those files are huge because of it. Contributors file should be enough.

[sindresorhus]

I've never seen it in a package.json and I don't really see the point as it's never used on the npm site, and probably wouldn't have been on the bower one either.

[xzyfer]

I tend to agree now. There are more important things to be progress IMO

[benschwarz]

Your sentiments were in the right place. Closing, for now.

[dbox]

+1 for original poster, fwiw