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I forked someone's repo and added functionality. The amount I contributed is just under half of all the functionality it now has.
In the fork in package.json, his name is still in the author field.
Should I change the author field to myself and add him as a contributor to the contributors field? Or should I leave the author field AS-IS and add me as a contributor?
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A fork is a copy of a repository that you manage. Forks let you make changes to a project without affecting the original repository. You can fetch updates from or submit changes to the original repository with pull requests.
Forking a repository allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project. Most commonly, forks are used to either propose changes to someone else's project or to use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea.
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So I just ran into this as well. Going off of @juanriqgon's comment, you could add contributors (in order of who contributed the most - maybe adding a note to the package for that).
{
"contributors" : [
{
"name" : "Barney Rubble",
"email" : "[email protected]",
"url" : "http://barnyrubble.tumblr.com/"
},
{
"name" : "Newton Bubble",
"email" : "[email protected]",
"url" : "http://newtonbubble.tumblr.com/"
}
]
}
source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/configuring-npm/package-json#people-fields-author-contributors
hope this helps the community!
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