Purpose of CONTRIBUTORS.txt

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

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+Every contribution to Celery is as important to us,
+as every coin in the money bin is to Scrooge McDuck.
+
+Everyone who have ever contributed to Celery should be in
+this list, but in a recent policy change it has been decided
+that everyone must add themselves here, and not be added
+by others, so it's currently incomplete, waiting for everyone
+to add their names.
+
+The full list of authors can be found in docs/AUTHORS.txt.
+
+--
+
 Contributor offers to license certain software (a “Contribution” or multiple
 “Contributions”) to Celery, and Celery agrees to accept said Contributions,
 under the terms of the BSD open source license.