NAME Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFile - add a file listing all contributors VERSION version 0.2.3 SYNOPSIS In dist.ini: " any plugin populating x_contributors in the META files [ContributorsFromGit] [ContributorsFile] filename = CONTRIBUTORS DESCRIPTION "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFile" populates a *CONTRIBUTORS* file with all the contributors of the project as found by "Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFromGit" (or any other plugin populating the *x_contributors* in the META files). The generated file will look like this: # FOO-BAR CONTRIBUTORS # This is the (likely incomplete) list of people who have helped make this distribution what it is, either via code contributions, patches, bug reports, help with troubleshooting, etc. A huge thank to all of them. * Albert Zoot * Bertrand Maxwell Note that if no contributors beside the actual author(s) are found, the file will not be created. CONFIGURATION OPTIONS filename The name of the contributor file that is created. Defaults to *CONTRIBUTORS*. TRICKS Refer to David Golden's blog entry at to get introduced to the "Dist::Zilla" contributor modules. Git's ".mailmap" file is useful to deal with contributors with several email addresses: . To give credit to bug reporters and other persons who don't commit code directly, you can use empty git commits: git commit --allow-empty --author="David Golden " -m "..." SEE ALSO Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ContributorsFromGit AUTHOR Yanick Champoux COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Yanick Champoux. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.