Add the names of all contributors to the documentation

[rohansx]

Problem

There are only a few names mentioned on the contributor's page while there are 265 contributors.

Proposed Solution

So, adding the names of all the contributors would be better and I would like to take on this task and would love to contribute.

Notes

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[rohansx]

I would love to take on this task and would love to contribute.

[FauconFan]

Hi!

I just came across this issue and your PR #2072. I think you could use mdbook-cmdrun for this. I checked the GitHub api, you can curl the list of contributors here https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/mdBook/contributors.

To display the name of each contributor if it is listed on GitHub, you can also curl the name using https://api.github.com/users/:user_name. When it is defined like ehuss, the name is not null, otherwise like mdinger, the name is null.

Some quick commands:

curl https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/mdBook/contributors
curl https://api.github.com/users/ehuss
curl https://api.github.com/users/mdinger

I see multiple drawbacks from this approach:

• Apparently the github api is not processing results but are caching them, so the list may be inaccurate link
• Using an external script and fetching all contributors information could be long, especially when someone is working on the book, this could be solved by caching the results locally (in /tmp for example).
• The book artifact won't be deterministic anymore

[expikr]

https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/mdBook/contributors only returns 30 contributors for me.

[FauconFan]

According to the documentation link, only the first 100 contributors that has contributed on default branch (I guess Master) are present. This is a good filter though.

[wc7086]

All contributors have been logged by git, and I think it's sufficient to list only the main contributors on the documentation. You can get all contributors by using git shortlog -sne in the git repository, refer to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-shortlog