You can’t expect mod users to know how to make mods. The wiki page actually talks about how to distribute your mod, and the easiest way for other people is for you to zip the entire mod’s folder including the JSON data file. That way they can unzip the folder to their mods folder to get your mod.
There’s plans to automate these steps:
However as with a ton of missing features / issues, I can’t promise when those get done.