A question I'm needing to validate is whether displaying the number of contributors would simply be helpful or seeing a list of actual people actively working on the tool project itself.

@bd808 @Slst2020 @Raymond_Ndibe thoughts?

Numeric count is pretty obviously easier, but what is helpful I guess is really unknown at this point.

One thing I would like everyone to be mindful of is that this is one of many potential signals, and as a corollary it is not the core business of Toolhub to become a high quality git repository metadata storage and visualization tool. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and others are already doing that as part of their service offerings. Instead what Toolhub needs is "just enough" data and display to be useful as an aggregate source of information for comparing tools against each other and any maturity model goals that we are attempting to encourage.