In the course of time, those who have the most impact on a plugin's development changes, and they should be properly recognized for their contributions. One way to do so is to have them appear higher in the list of contributors on the WordPress.org plugin page. The initial developer(s) of the plugin should probably remain at the top of the contributors list.

To accomplish the above, a file will need to be added to each project which maps WordPress.org usernames to the author names used in the Git commits.