Modify README for openSUSE (#728)

Author: m-czernek

AUTHORS

@@ -8,114 +8,28 @@ Whos Who in Salt
 The Man With the Plan
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-Thomas S. Hatch is the main developer of Salt. He is the founder, owner,
-maintainer and lead of the Salt project, as well as author of the majority
-of the Salt code and documentation.
+Thomas S. Hatch is the creator of Salt. He was the founder, owner,
+maintainer that lead Salt project, as well as author of the majority
+of initial Salt code and documentation.
 
-Documentation System
-----------------------------
+SaltStack, Inc. was acquired by VMware in 2020. In 2023, VMware was
+acquired by Broadcom.
 
-The documentation system was put together by Seth House, much of the
-documentation is being maintained by Seth.
+The Salt Project core team of developers are employed by Broadcom.
 
-Developers
+Documentation System
 ----------------------------
 
-Aaron Bull Schaefer <[email protected]>
-Aaron Toponce <[email protected]>
-Andrew Hammond <[email protected]>
-Aditya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
-Alexander Pyatkin <[email protected]>
-Andre Sachs <[email protected]>
-Andrew Colin Kissa <[email protected]>
-Andrew Kuhnhausen <[email protected]>
-Antti Kaihola <[email protected]>
-archme <[email protected]>
-Brad Barden <[email protected]>
-Bret Palsson <[email protected]>
-Brian Wagner <[email protected]>
-C. R. Oldham <[email protected]>
-Carl Loa Odin <[email protected]>
-Carlo Pires <[email protected]>
-Chris Rebert <[email protected]>
-Chris Scheller <[email protected]>
-Christer Edwards <[email protected]>
-Clint Savage <[email protected]>
-Colton Myers <[email protected]>
-Corey Quinn <[email protected]>
-Corin Kochenower <[email protected]>
-Dan Garthwaite <[email protected]>
-Daniel Wallace <danielwallace at gtmanfred dot com>
-David Boucha <[email protected]>
-David Pravec <[email protected]>
-deutsche
-Dmitry Kuzmenko <[email protected]>
-Doug Renn <[email protected]>
-Eivind Uggedal <[email protected]>
-[email protected] <[email protected]>
-Eric Poelke <[email protected]>
-Erik Nolte <[email protected]>
-Evan Borgstrom <[email protected]>
-Forrest Alvarez <[email protected]>
-Fred Reimer <[email protected]>
-Henrik Holmboe <[email protected]>
-Gareth J. Greenaway <[email protected]>
-Jacob Albretsen <[email protected]>
-Jed Glazner <[email protected]>
-Jeff Bauer <[email protected]>
-Jeff Hutchins <[email protected]>
-Jeffrey C. Ollie <[email protected]>
-Jeff Schroeder <[email protected]>
-Johnny Bergström
-Jonas Buckner <[email protected]>
-Jonathan Harker <[email protected]>
-Joseph Hall <[email protected]>
-Josmar Dias <[email protected]>
-Kent Tenney <[email protected]>
-lexual
-Marat Shakirov
-Marc Abramowitz <[email protected]>
-Martin Schnabel <[email protected]>
-Mathieu Le Marec - Pasquet <[email protected]>
-Matt Black
-Matthew Printz <[email protected]>
-Matthias Teege <[email protected]>
-Maxim Burgerhout <[email protected]>
-Mickey Malone <[email protected]>
-Michael Steed <[email protected]>
-Mike Place <[email protected]>
-Mircea Ulinic <[email protected]>
-Mitch Anderson <[email protected]>
-Mostafa Hussein <[email protected]>
-Nathaniel Whiteinge <[email protected]>
-Nicolas Delaby <[email protected]>
-Nicole Thomas <[email protected]>
-Nigel Owen <nigelowen2.gmail.com>
-Nitin Madhok <[email protected]>
-Oleg Anashkin <[email protected]>
-Pedro Algarvio <[email protected]>
-Peter Baumgartner
-Pierre Carrier <[email protected]>
-Rhys Elsmore <[email protected]>
-Rafael Caricio <[email protected]>
-Robert Fielding
-Sean Channel <[email protected]>
-Seth House <[email protected]>
-Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
-Stas Alekseev <[email protected]>
-Thibault Cohen <[email protected]>
-Thomas Schreiber <[email protected]>
-Thomas S Hatch <[email protected]>
-Tor Hveem <[email protected]>
-Travis Cline <[email protected]>
-Wieland Hoffmann <[email protected]>
+The initial documentation system was put together by Seth House.
 
+Documentation is now primarily maintained by the Salt Project core team and
+community members.
 
 Growing Community
 --------------------------------
 
-Salt is a rapidly growing project with a large community, to view all
-contributors please check Github, this file can sometimes be out of date:
+Salt is a rapidly growing project with a large community, and has had more than
+2,400 contributors over the years. To view all contributors, please check Github:
 
 https://github.com/saltstack/salt/graphs/contributors