[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1840: Seamless Donations plugin doesn't show the right developer name

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#1840: Seamless Donations plugin doesn't show the right developer name
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 Reporter:  dgewirtz          |       Owner:
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Plugin Directory v3 - M6
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by Otto42):

 In the past, we have mainly used the "primary author" field just as a way
 to know where a plugin originally came from. This is basically the same as
 the "author" field in WordPress posts, just a single author connection.

 But we don't show "Authors" on the plugins page using that. Plugins don't
 have authors, they have Contributors and Committers. The list of authors
 should be the same as the list of Contributors. The list of committers
 only controls access to the SVN.

 So, you really need two sets of users: Contributors who will be shown as
 the "Authors", and committers who have access to the SVN. Neither of those
 is the "author" in the post sense, so the author field there will be
 unused or only used internally.

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