Is there guidance for how to choose between the options for the manifest.contributors

contribution

field (author vs. maintainer vs. contributor)? I realize this is a Nextflow feature and not specific to nf-core... I can't find any suggested semantics for this, just the enumerated list of possible values.

We talked at length about it

Thanks, that breakdown is helpful

For me anyone that has done a good enough job of refactoring or adding tons of features deserves to be an author. Basically anyone that would be presenting about it in a conf

Yeah, it's on my to-do list when I'm back from travelling to add a page on the docs about it . Basically my view on it is essentially: • Author: any original 'architect', or someone who was at some point a (co-) lead maintainer or significant contributor in the past • Maintainer: people who are actively and regularly maintaining/developing the pipeline currently (typical lead developers) • Contributors: people who have/are currently only sporadically contribute