From d04505553e8e246e168a4170a7ffb4bbcf80551b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronny Pfannschmidt <opensource@ronnypfannschmidt.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:55:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] update authors list for 2.8.3 and add a log command to the
 howto

---
 HOWTORELEASE.rst                  |  4 +++-
 doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HOWTORELEASE.rst b/HOWTORELEASE.rst
index 3c829ec83..2a21d4d0e 100644
--- a/HOWTORELEASE.rst
+++ b/HOWTORELEASE.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ Note: this assumes you have already registered on pypi.
 2. Check and finalize CHANGELOG
 
 3. Write doc/en/announce/release-VERSION.txt and include
-   it in doc/en/announce/index.txt
+   it in doc/en/announce/index.txt::
+
+        git log 2.8.2..HEAD --format='%aN' | sort -u # lists the names of authors involved
 
 4. Use devpi for uploading a release tarball to a staging area::
 
diff --git a/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst b/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst
index 70a5a86c1..9cd01992f 100644
--- a/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst
+++ b/doc/en/announce/release-2.8.3.rst
@@ -15,13 +15,17 @@ As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::
 
 Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:
 
-    Bruno Oliveira
-    Demian Brecht
-    Florian Bruhin
-    Ionel Cristian Mărieș
-    Raphael Pierzina
-    Ronny Pfannschmidt
-    holger krekel
+        Bruno Oliveira
+        Florian Bruhin
+        Gabe Hollombe
+        Gabriel Reis
+        Hartmut Goebel
+        John Vandenberg
+        Lee Kamentsky
+        Michael Birtwell
+        Raphael Pierzina
+        Ronny Pfannschmidt
+        William Martin Stewart
 
 Happy testing,
 The py.test Development Team