-The list decomposed into 3 parts. First the list of areas that someone
-wants to be maintaining (i.e. has a particularly keen interest for it);
-then the list of areas that someone is willing to maintain, although
-he would not necessarily mind if someone else was the official maintainer;
-and finally the list of areas for which no maintainer has been found so far.
+This file contains a description of who is responsible for maintaining
+what parts of the Emacs distribution. The areas can be defined
+"arbitrarily", but should provide fairly well-defined boundaries so
+that there are not too many ambiguities.
+
+The list below consists of 3 parts. First, the list of areas that
+someone wants to be maintaining (i.e. has a particularly keen interest
+for it); then the list of areas that someone is willing to maintain,
+although he would not necessarily mind if someone else was the
+official maintainer; and finally the list of areas for which no
+maintainer has been found so far.