[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 152665] New: Too easy to add contributors to wrong place in contributors.json

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152665

            Bug ID: 152665
           Summary: Too easy to add contributors to wrong place in
                    contributors.json
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: Tools / Tests
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: mcatanzaro at igalia.com
                CC: lforschler at apple.com

contributors.json has three lists: committers, contributors (who are neither committers nor reviewers; good to make it easy to CC people or bots in Bugzilla), and reviewers. But the file is very long, so it's easy to not realize this and add a name to the wrong list, or get confused about which part of the file you are in.

For instance, it took three tries to get Sebastian's name in the right place:

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190959
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194432
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194511

I also noticed Frédéric was in the wrong place:

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194512

I only caught these two cases because these are folks whom I happen to know, and I was looking through the file while moving myself to the reviewers list. There are probably many other contributors in the wrong place.

Make it more difficult to add people in the wrong place by splitting these lists out into three separate files.

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