Merge pull request #1871 from lukpueh/rm-authors-txt

doc: update acknowledgements and rm AUHTORS.txt

.github/workflows/maintainer-permissions-reminder.yml

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ jobs:
              * Each additional maintainer/admin increases the risk of project compromise: for this reason permissions should be removed if they are no longer used
              * For services that are not frequently used, each maintainer/admin should check that they really are still able to authenticate to the service and confirm this in the comments
           3. Update MAINTAINERS.txt to reflect current permissions
+          4. (Bonus) Update significant contributors in README.md#acknowledgements
 
           ### Critical services
 

README.md

@@ -120,15 +120,15 @@ Acknowledgements
 ----------------
 
 This project is hosted by the Linux Foundation under the Cloud Native Computing
-Foundation.  TUF's early development was managed by
-members of the [Secure Systems Lab](https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/) at [New
-York University](https://engineering.nyu.edu/).  We appreciate the efforts of
-Konstantin Andrianov, Geremy Condra, Vladimir Diaz, Yuyu Zheng, Sebastien Awwad,
-Santiago Torres-Arias, Trishank Kuppusamy, Zane Fisher, Pankhuri Goyal, Tian Tian,
-Konstantin Andrianov, and Justin Samuel who are among those who helped significantly
-with TUF's reference implementation.  [Contributors](https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/blob/develop/docs/AUTHORS.txt)
-and
-[maintainers](https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/blob/develop/docs/MAINTAINERS.txt)
+Foundation.  TUF's early development was managed by members of the [Secure
+Systems Lab](https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/) at [New York
+University](https://engineering.nyu.edu/). We appreciate the efforts of all
+[maintainers and emeritus
+maintainers](https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/blob/develop/docs/MAINTAINERS.txt),
+as well as the contributors Konstantin Andrianov, Kairo de Araujo, Ivana
+Atanasova, Geremy Condra, Zane Fisher, Pankhuri Goyal, Justin Samuel, Tian
+Tian, Martin Vrachev and Yuyu Zheng who are among those who helped
+significantly with TUF's reference implementation. Maintainers and Contributors
 are governed by the [CNCF Community Code of
 Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
 

docs/AUTHORS.txt

@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-The TUF project is managed by Justin Cappos at NYU (jcappos@nyu.edu).  See GOVERNANCE.md for more information.
-
-Contributors:
-
-Organizations
--------------
-
-Advanced Telematic Systems
-Datadog
-Docker
-Flynn
-LEAP
-OCaml
-Quay by CoreOS
-
-Individuals
------------
-
-Alan Castonguay
-Andrew Meyer
-Arturo Filastò
-Benno Fünfstück
-David Halls
-David Lawrence
-Diogo Monica
-Eric Hartsuyker
-Evan Cordell
-Felix Wang
-Geremy Condra
-goldenMetteyya
-Hannes Mehnert
-Jerry Trieu
-Johannes Dorfner
-John Ward
-Jonathan Rudenberg
-Julian Hille
-Justin Cappos
-Justin Samuel
-Konstantin Andrianov
-Linda Vigdor
-Lois DeLong
-Lukas Puehringer
-María José Barrera
-Martin Peck
-Max Goodman
-Monzur Muhammad
-Nektarios Tsoutsos
-Nick Mathewson
-Pankhuri Goyal
-Riyaz Faizullabhoy
-Roger Dingledine
-Ruben Pollan
-Santiago Torres
-Sebastian Hahn
-Sebastien Awwad
-Tian Tian
-Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy
-Vladimir Diaz
-Wilson Ding
-Ying Li
-Yuyu Zheng
-Zane Fisher