diff --git a/app.psgi b/app.psgi
index 7b1e27a0bc..49447de179 100644
--- a/app.psgi
+++ b/app.psgi
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ $app = Plack::Middleware::Assets->wrap(
             cpan
             toolbar
             github
+            contributors
             )
     ],
 );
diff --git a/lib/MetaCPAN/Web/Controller/Release.pm b/lib/MetaCPAN/Web/Controller/Release.pm
index 0ee2e85e2d..57d783a8b7 100644
--- a/lib/MetaCPAN/Web/Controller/Release.pm
+++ b/lib/MetaCPAN/Web/Controller/Release.pm
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ sub view : Private {
 
     $c->res->last_modified( $out->{date} );
 
+    $self->groom_contributors( $c, $out );
+
+
     # TODO: make took more automatic (to include all)
     $c->stash(
         {   template => 'release.html',
@@ -106,4 +109,36 @@ sub view : Private {
     );
 }
 
+# massage the x_contributors field into what we want
+sub groom_contributors {
+    my( $self, $c, $out ) = @_;
+    
+    return unless $out->{metadata}{x_contributors};
+
+    # just in case a lonely contributor makes it as a scalar
+    $out->{metadata}{x_contributors} = [ 
+        $out->{metadata}{x_contributors}
+    ] unless ref $out->{metadata}{x_contributors};
+
+    my @contributors = map {
+        s/<(.*)>//;
+        { name => $_, email => $1 }
+    } @{$out->{metadata}{x_contributors}};
+
+    $out->{metadata}{x_contributors} = \@contributors;
+
+    for my $contributor ( @{ $out->{metadata}{x_contributors} } ) {
+
+        # heuristic to autofill pause accounts
+        $contributor->{pauseid} = uc $1
+            if !$contributor->{pauseid} 
+            and $contributor->{email} =~ /^(.*)\@cpan.org/;
+
+        next unless $contributor->{pauseid};
+
+        $contributor->{url} = 
+            $c->uri_for_action( '/author/index', [ $contributor->{pauseid} ] );
+    }
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/root/inc/contributors.html b/root/inc/contributors.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98251ee661
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/inc/contributors.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<% IF contributors %>
+
+<div id="contributors">
+    <strong>and <% contributors.size %> contributors</strong>
+    <div align="right">
+        <a name="authors" href="#authors"
+            onclick="$(this).hide(); $('#contributors ul').slideDown()"
+        >show them</a>
+    </div>
+    <ul style="display: none">
+    <% FOREACH contributor IN contributors %>
+        <li style="text-align: left; padding-left: 22px;">
+        <% IF contributor.pauseid %>
+        <a href="<% contributor.url %>" 
+           class="cpan_author" 
+           data-cpan-author="<% contributor.pauseid %>"><% contributor.name %></a>
+        <% ELSE %>
+        <% contributor.name %>
+        <% END %>
+        </li>
+    <% END %>
+    </ul>
+</div>
+
+<% END %>
diff --git a/root/release.html b/root/release.html
index ce1645e9c7..f70581026b 100644
--- a/root/release.html
+++ b/root/release.html
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@
   </ul>
 </div>
 
+<div id="authors"
+    style="text-align: center; float: <% IF float == 'left' %>left; padding-left: 20px<% ELSE %>right; width: 160px; padding-left: 80px<% END %>">
 <% INCLUDE inc/author-pic.html author = author %>
+<% INCLUDE inc/contributors.html
+    contributors = release.metadata.x_contributors %>
+</div>
 <% INCLUDE inc/dependencies.html dependencies = release.dependency %>
 
 <div class="content">
diff --git a/root/static/js/contributors.js b/root/static/js/contributors.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7bd78c5782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/static/js/contributors.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+$(function(){
+    $('a.cpan_author').each(function(){
+        var $anchor = $(this);
+        var author = $anchor.attr('data-cpan-author');
+        if( typeof author == 'undefined' ) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $.getJSON( "https://api.metacpan.org/author/" + author, function( data ){
+            if ( typeof data.name == 'undefined' ) {
+                return;
+            }
+            // TODO make this an :before pseudo-class
+            var gravatar = data.gravatar_url;
+            gravatar = gravatar.replace( 
+                "^http://(www\.)?gravatar.com/",
+                "https://secure.gravatar.com/"
+            ).replace(
+                /s=\d+/,
+                's=20'
+            );
+            var $img = $('<img />').attr( 'src', gravatar )
+                .attr( 'width', 20 )
+                .attr( 'height', 20 );
+            $anchor.css( 'margin-left', '1px' );
+            $anchor.parent().css( 'padding-left', '1px' );
+            $anchor.text( data.name );
+            $anchor.before( $img );
+        });
+    });
+});