diff --git a/README b/README
index 5bd5ca5..0f9e57e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -30,10 +30,23 @@ pythons built-in help facility::
  import asterisk.config
  help (asterisk.config)
 
+Credits
+-------
+
+Thanks to Karl Putland for writing the original package. 
+Thanks to Matthew Nicholson for maintaining the package for some years
+and for handing over maintenance when he was no longer interested.
 
 Things to do for pyst
 ---------------------
 
+This is the original changelog merged into the readme file. I'm not so
+sure I really want to change all these things (in particular the
+threaded implementation looks good to me). I will maintain a section
+summarizing the changes in this README, the ChangeLog won't be
+maintained any longer. Detailed changes will be available in the version
+control tool (currently svn).
+
 * ChangeLog:
   The ChangeLog needs to be updated from the monotone logs.
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f7fb30e..7721894 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ setup \
     , long_description = ''.join (description)
     , author = 'Karl Putland'
     , author_email = 'kputland@users.sourceforge.net'
+    , maintainer = 'Ralf Schlatterbeck'
+    , maintainer_email = 'rsc@runtux.com'
     , url = 'http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pyst/'
     , packages = ['asterisk']
     , license = ', '.join (licenses)