Add 'contributor' in addition to original author(s)

[droumis]

Let's consider adding a 'contributor' field in addition to the original author(s) to encourage smaller maintenance/updates and give credit to those who made contributions to some targeted aspects but not quite at the level of an author. This approach has been adopted by Pythia, for instance.

[droumis]

Alternatively, Galaxy calls such contributors 'Editors'

[jbednar]

Good point! For the specific case of an example, I'd reflexively read "contributor" as being synonymous with "original author" -- the person who contributed the example. That's not what's meant here, just someone who contributes to the example. It would be more clear if it says "Other contributor(s)" to signify being in contrast to "authors", though that's wordy. I think "Editor" is also a bit odd; sounds like either a copyeditor or a scientific article editor, neither of which likely applies here. And "Maintainer" to me implies an ongoing role that also doesn't necessarily apply. So I don't love any of those three words to indicate "someone who changed these files in some way not amounting to authorship", but I don't have any better suggestion and I do like the idea of being able to distinguish, so I'm happy with whatever!