Since @pganssle has expressed interest in discussing it further (and made an interesting suggestion for how we could tackle the Author/Maintainer situation), I’ve flagged this thread to request the discuss.python.org moderators to split out the discussion on the Author/Metadata fields into a dedicated thread.
@mods please keep this post in this thread, and I’ll edit it later to include the link to the new thread. 
Edit: The author/maintainer distinction problem it is!