Suggestion for "Contributors" list

[Chlumsky]

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I manage a somewhat popular repository and get random pull requests from time to time. However, I've found that I'm extremely hesitant to accepting those, even if I fully approve of the contents, because it means the author gets added to the contributors list on the repository page. And I'm talking about commits that change 3 lines to fix a warning for a compiler I don't use, cases like that.

The repository is pretty much completely written by me with a few contributions from pull requests in a very similar vein as I've described, but never adding any substantial portion of code, and yet I'm listed as "one of 12 contributors" on the same level as the authors of those pull requests.

Therefore, I propose some changes to how the contributor list is generated. First of all, I think it should omit trivial contributions, like < 10 lines of code in a repository with tens of thousands. Second, if there are users who are very clearly the main authors or maintainers (large portion of the code authored / number of commits), perhaps they should be clearly differentiated from the one time / few line contributors.

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