standardize the authors line

[Remko Lodder]

Heya Josef,

Josef El-Rayes wrote:

> hi friends!
> 
> as i am reading through the developers and arch handbook
> i noticed that there is no common way the contributor line
> looks:
> 
> - This chapter was written by Murray Stokely and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.
> - This chapter was written by Murray Stokely <murray at FreeBSD.org>.
> - Contributed by Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at FreeBSD.org>.
> - John Baldwin and Robert Watson. Copyright © 2002, 2003 John BaldwinRobert Watson
> - Contributed by Matthew Dillon.
> - Chris Costello and Robert Watson.

indeed not that nice ;-)

> 
> somethimes there is a preceeding "contributed by" or a "this was written by"
> sometimes there is a copyright statement, sometimes not, sometimes there is an
> email adress, sometimes not.
> 
> i would like to change it to a common:
>  
> Contributed by Bla Blabla <bla at FreeBSD.org> and Foo Foofoo <foo at FreeBSD.org>
> 

that sounds better, clear markup and it's clear.


> what do you think about this?

See above :-)

> 
> -josef

Cheers!


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Remko Lodder
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