Re: [Rfc-markdown] Contributors

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 12.03.2020 17:45, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2020-03-12, at 00:20, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> So the idea would be that you have an additional YAML section for contributors, like this:
>>
>> author:
>> - name: Henk Birkholz
>> - name: Max Pritikin
>> - name: Robert Moskowitz
>> contributor:
>> - name: Carsten Bormann
>
> Done in 1.3.1.
>
> Please update your local system using:
>
>    gem update
>
> Or more specifically
>
>    gem update kramdown-rfc2629
>
> Then move the authors that should be listed as contributors from author: to contributor:, as in:
>
> author:
> - name: Henk Birkholz
>    org: Fraunhofer SIT
>    abbrev: Fraunhofer SIT
>    email: [e-mail]
>    street: Rheinstrasse 75
>    code: '64295'
>    city: Darmstadt
>    country: Germany
> contributor:
> - name: Carsten Bormann
>    org: Universität Bremen TZI
>    street: Postfach 330440
>    city: Bremen
>    code: D-28359
>    country: Germany
>    phone: [phone]
>    email: [e-mail]
>
>
> This only works under v3 processing rules, as v2 does not have the <contact> element needed for that; so you have to run kdrfc with -3 (or use Martin Thomson’s template).
>
> You also (or alternatively) can add some text in the front of the contributors section (before the contacts are listed) by marking it with --- contributor, e.g. before --- abstract:
>
> --- contributor
>
> Because of the straightjacket 5-authors rule, the following co-authors
> are not listed under the front page co-authors:
>
> --- abstract
> ...

Um.

*Is* there a "straightjacket 5-authors rule"? Last time I checked
(admittedly a few years ago), it was just a recommendation, to be
negotiated with the powers-that-be?

Best regards, Julian