Omitting "Maintainer:" (was: Robert J. Chasell reference ...)

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Listing bug-texinfo as maintainer is not useful since I am struggling
> to find someone eo maintain Texinfo.  Sad to say, the only thing we
> can do is list no maintainer for texinfmt.el.

Easy to do, though we list bug-reporting addresses elsewhere too. For example, 
"Maintainer: address@hidden" also appears in lisp/textmodes/texnfo-upd.el.

Come to think of it, the "Maintainer:" comments are no longer worth the effort 
of keeping them up-to-date, now that we have a version-control system that keeps 
track of authors and committers automatically. For example, all 327 instances of 
"Maintainer: address@hidden" in the source code are useless, and the 
remaining "Maintainer:" instances are easily (and more-accurately) determined 
from the commit logs. If we had removed "Maintainer:" comments before now, that 
would have saved me work here, and removing these comments now will save us work 
in the future, all things considered. Proposed patch attached.

> Aside from that, please change "passed away" to "died".
> As a founding member of the anti-euphemism league, I must insist.

I removed that sentence in the master branch, as the exact date of death doesn't 
matter to the manual, and put in (1946--2017) after his name to briefly indicate 
that Bob's no longer with us.

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