diff --git a/tools/add_contributors.py b/tools/add_contributors.py
index fe7c562b87..4c5967edac 100644
--- a/tools/add_contributors.py
+++ b/tools/add_contributors.py
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
 UPDATE_AVATARS = False
 GH_USERNAME = "Remi-Gau"
 TOKEN_FILE = None
-RICH_STACKTRACE = False  # XXX: what is this?
+# if you not want traceback from rich
+# https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/traceback.html
+# set this to False
+RICH_STACKTRACE = False
 
 # Set to True to use some of the dummy data in the `new_contributors.tsv`
 TEST = True