automate extracting the contributors #9288
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Since I've been doing a few releases recently, I noticed that the code snippets in the release guide to produce the list of contributors is inaccurate (we credit bots by default), there's a trailing comma, and, most importantly, we don't include co-authors.
In an attempt to fix this, here's a script that searches the commit messages for any
Co-authored-by:
lines and adds them to the set of contributors. As an example, for #9287 the old snippets would exclude @kmuehlbauer.