Add manifest.contributors config option

[bentsherman]

Close #4034

Deprecate manifest.author, remove manifest.maintainer from #5314 , and add manifest.contributors which is a list of maps. The maps are converted to records under the hood.

Contribution types include "author" and "maintainer". The BCO spec is based on PAV ontology which includes "createdBy", "authoredBy", and "curatedBy". I think we can map author -> authoredBy and maintainer -> curatedBy. Not sure that we need a "creator" option separate from "author". But this ontology seems to be the standard across multiple provenance formats.

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[pinin4fjords]

Nice flexible solution, makes sense

[pditommaso]

Worth to add some tests in the Tower client. This info needs likely to be collected in Platform

[bentsherman]

@pditommaso regarding the tower client, the only touchpoint I see with the manifest config is when sending the resolved config:

nextflow/plugins/nf-tower/src/main/io/seqera/tower/plugin/TowerClient.groovy

Line 610 in 01b9c52

workflow.configText = session.resolvedConfig

At this point the config has been rendered to a string so the Manifest class is no longer involved

[pditommaso]

I think it gets serialised with the workflow metadata here

nextflow/plugins/nf-tower/src/main/io/seqera/tower/plugin/TowerClient.groovy

Line 603 in 30542f0

def workflow = session.getWorkflowMetadata().toMap()

[bentsherman]

@pditommaso thanks, I see it now

@ewels what was the rationale for the organisation option? is it still needed if the contributors can have an affiliation?

also, didn't we standardize around American English...

[ewels]

I guess a pipeline could have a different organisation to its contributors? Such as organisation: @nf-core

But it's a bit of a stretch, happy for that one to be dropped if it was only just added 👍🏻

US English is fine by me. Apologies if it was me who introduced that. My fingers aren't capable of following instructions on this score..

[pditommaso]

Looks there are failing tests, right?

[jfy133]

Suggested change

	- `github`: the contributor's GitHub URL
	- `github`: the contributor's Git(Hub/Lab etc.) URL

Re @pditommaso 's comment, what about this instead to make it clearer it's just the handle you use in any git context?

Also do you give the full URL or just the handle itself?