Acknowledging all contributions/contributors

GitHub has a way to show the people that committed (code) to this project. However by default only very few people are shown, and there is no further information about what they have contributed either.

As our community grows, it would be great to acknowledge the broad range of people that are supporting our patterns in all sorts of ways, not just the ones contributing code/patterns.

Implementation thoughts

I have heard good things about the all-contributors spec and bot but I don't know how it works in practice.

Their claim is:

Recognize All Contributors - Including those that don't push code

However their documentation looks like users need a GitHub handle to be added as contributors, which seems counter intuitive.

I am taking inspiration from The Turing Way project, who are using the tool for years.
We could review their implementation notes. Some links to get started:

• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/blob/main/contributors.md#record-of-contributions
• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#recognising-contributions
• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/issues/274
• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/issues/446

Read the linked Turing Way contributors.md and CONTRIBUTING.md sections, then review the all-contributors specification and bot documentation. Determine how this project should represent code and non-code contributions, including contributors without GitHub handles. Done means the chosen recognition approach and its maintenance process are agreed and documented.