Update.

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@@ -56,16 +56,37 @@ Thanks!
     dealii-developers@googlegroups.com
     num.info@ganymed.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
     aspect-devel@geodynamics.org
-    na-seminar@math.tamu.edu
-    "Suttmeier, Franz-Theo" <suttmeier@mathematik.uni-siegen.de>
-    geenen@gmail.com
-    joerg.willems@oeaw.ac.at
-    jwalton@math.tamu.edu
-    lube@math.uni-goettingen.de
-    mihai@vt.edu,sandu@cs.vt.edu,    Krishna Siva Shankar Rudraraju <rudraa@umich.edu>
 
 
--1a/ update the authors list on the homepage authors.html by
+-1a/ Start release paper process with email to all current (principal)
+ developers:
+
+All,
+Timo and I have started to work on a few things necessary for the next release. In particular, we would like to get the release paper started.
+
+To this end:
+* Please check out https://github.com/dealii/release-papers
+* If you think that you have contributed in a way that warrants co-authorship,
+  please add yourself to the list of authors for the 8.5 papers
+* If you think that someone other than just us maintainers should be a
+  co-author, please nominate that person here
+We think that these last two points are important -- we want the list of co-authors to reflect who actually contributed, rather than inherited rights in the project, because that makes it clear to current and future participants in the project that they can hope for formal recognition of their work in terms of things they can put on their CV.
+
+As far as content of the paper is concerned: I put together a list of possible topics -- please take a look. Other things we /could/ talk about, if we think they are important, but that I'm not sure are good material:
+* PVS static checker, coverity, ...
+* GridReordering rewrite
+* No longer use features of C++ deprecated with C++11/14/17
+* Move operators
+* Python bindings
+Please discuss. Also suggest topics I may have forgotten.
+
+As far as the material I tentatively put into the paper: if you're willing to write a section, can you attach your name to it somehow in the next couple of days?
+
+Best
+  Wolfgang & Timo
+  
+
+-1b/ update the authors list on the homepage authors.html by
      cross-referencing doc/news/changes.h
 
      Get the list using
@@ -78,7 +99,7 @@ Thanks!
 
 
 
--1b/ The list of contributors to the current release should also be copied to
+-1c/ The list of contributors to the current release should also be copied to
      the end of the release paper:
 
 Developers:
@@ -93,90 +114,8 @@ Developers:
   David Wells
   Toby Young
 
-Contributors for 8.4: 
-Adam Kosik
-Alberto Sartori
-Alexander Grayver
-Alistair Bentley
-Andrea Bonito
-Angel Rodriguez
-Arezou Ghesmati
-Aslan Kosakian
-Claire Bruna-Rosso
-Conrad Clevenger
-Daniel Arndt
-Daniel Shapero
-Daniel Weygand
-Florian Sonner
-Gennadiy Rishin
-Heikki Virtanen
-Jan Stebel
-Jason Sheldon
-Jean-Paul Pelteret
-Konstantin Ladutenko
-Krzysztof Bzowski
-Lei Qiao
-Lukas Korous
-Maien Hamed
-Mauro Bardelloni
-Patrick Esser
-Praveen Chandrashekar
-Rene Gassmoeller
-Zhen Tao
-
-
-
-Contributors for 8.3:
-  Daniel Arndt
-  Benjamin Brands
-  Praveen C
-  Denis Davydov
-  Anton Evgrafov
-  Arezou Ghesmati
-  Nicola Giuliani
-  Lukas Korous
-  Ross Kynch
-  Giuseppe Pitton
-  Fernando Posada
-  Lei Qiao
-  Angel Rodriguez
-  Ian Rose
-  Florian Sonner
-  Martin Steigemann
-  Zhen Tao
-  Marco Tezzele
-  David Wells
-
-Contributors for 8.2:
-  Alexander Grayver
-  Andrea Mola
-  Andrew Baker
-  Angela Klewinghaus
-  Arezou Ghesmati
-  Ben Thompson
-  Christoph Heiniger
-  Damien Lebrun-Grandie
-  Daniel Arndt
-  David Wells
-  Denis Davydov
-  Fahad Alrashed
-  Giorgos Kourakos
-  Jean-Paul Pelteret
-  Kainan Wang
-  Kevin Drzycimski
-  Krysztof Bzowski
-  Lukas Korous
-  Manuel Quezada de Luna
-  Markus Bürg
-  Martin Steigemann
-  Mayank Sabharwal
-  Michal Wichrowski
-  Mihai Alexe
-  Minh Do-Quang
-  Shiva Rudraraju
-  Uwe Köcher
-  Valentin Zingan
-
+Contributors for 8.5: 
+  tbd
 
 0/ Do some basic testing as always