chore: add AUTHOR.md file (#4241)

Signed-off-by: tison <wander4096@gmail.com>

AUTHOR.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# GreptimeDB Authors
+
+## Individual Committers (in alphabetical order)
+
+* [CookiePieWw](https://github.com/CookiePieWw)
+* [KKould](https://github.com/KKould)
+* [NiwakaDev](https://github.com/NiwakaDev)
+* [etolbakov](https://github.com/etolbakov)
+* [irenjj](https://github.com/irenjj)
+
+## Team Members (in alphabetical order)
+
+* [Breeze-P](https://github.com/Breeze-P)
+* [GrepTime](https://github.com/GrepTime)
+* [MichaelScofield](https://github.com/MichaelScofield)
+* [Wenjie0329](https://github.com/Wenjie0329)
+* [WenyXu](https://github.com/WenyXu)
+* [ZonaHex](https://github.com/ZonaHex)
+* [apdong2022](https://github.com/apdong2022)
+* [beryl678](https://github.com/beryl678)
+* [daviderli614](https://github.com/daviderli614)
+* [discord9](https://github.com/discord9)
+* [evenyag](https://github.com/evenyag)
+* [fengjiachun](https://github.com/fengjiachun)
+* [fengys1996](https://github.com/fengys1996)
+* [holalengyu](https://github.com/holalengyu)
+* [killme2008](https://github.com/killme2008)
+* [nicecui](https://github.com/nicecui)
+* [paomian](https://github.com/paomian)
+* [shuiyisong](https://github.com/shuiyisong)
+* [sunchanglong](https://github.com/sunchanglong)
+* [sunng87](https://github.com/sunng87)
+* [tisonkun](https://github.com/tisonkun)
+* [v0y4g3r](https://github.com/v0y4g3r)
+* [waynexia](https://github.com/waynexia)
+* [xtang](https://github.com/xtang)
+* [zhaoyingnan01](https://github.com/zhaoyingnan01)
+* [zhongzc](https://github.com/zhongzc)
+* [zyy17](https://github.com/zyy17)
+
+## All Contributors
+
+[![All Contributors](https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=GreptimeTeam/greptimedb)](https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb/graphs/contributors)

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ Thanks a lot for considering contributing to GreptimeDB. We believe people like
 
 You can find our contributors at https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb/graphs/contributors. When you dedicate to GreptimeDB for a few months and keep bringing high-quality contributions (code, docs, advocate, etc.), you will be a candidate of a committer.
 
-A committer will be granted both read & write access to GreptimeDB repos. Here is a list of current committers except GreptimeDB team members:
-
-* [Eugene Tolbakov](https://github.com/etolbakov): PromQL support, SQL engine, InfluxDB APIs, and more.
-* [@NiwakaDev](https://github.com/NiwakaDev): SQL engine and storage layer.
+A committer will be granted both read & write access to GreptimeDB repos. Check the [AUTHOR.md](AUTHOR.md) file for all current individual committers.
 
 Please read the guidelines, and they can help you get started. Communicate respectfully with the developers maintaining and developing the project. In return, they should reciprocate that respect by addressing your issue, reviewing changes, as well as helping finalize and merge your pull requests.
 

README.md

@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ Please refer to [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [internal concept
 
 ## Acknowledgement
 
+Special thanks to all the contributors who have propelled GreptimeDB forward. For a complete list of contributors, please refer to [AUTHOR.md](AUTHOR.md).
+
 - GreptimeDB uses [Apache Arrow™](https://arrow.apache.org/) as the memory model and [Apache Parquet™](https://parquet.apache.org/) as the persistent file format.
 - GreptimeDB's query engine is powered by [Apache Arrow DataFusion™](https://arrow.apache.org/datafusion/).
 - [Apache OpenDAL™](https://opendal.apache.org) gives GreptimeDB a very general and elegant data access abstraction layer.