Replace AUTHORS.md by an updated MAINTAINERS.md

AUTHORS.md

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-The Prometheus project was started by Matt T. Proud (emeritus) and
-Julius Volz in 2012.
-
-Maintainers of this repository:
-
-* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com>
-* Fabian Reinartz <fabian.reinartz@coreos.com>
-* Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com>
-
-More than [100 individuals][1] have contributed to this repository. Please
-refer to the Git commit log for a complete list.
-
-[1]: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/graphs/contributors

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
 
-* If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull
-  request, addressing (with `@...`) one or more of the maintainers
-  (see [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md)) in the description of the pull request.
+* If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull request,
+  addressing (with `@...`) a suitable maintainer of this repository (see
+  [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md)) in the description of the pull request.
 
 * If you plan to do something more involved, first discuss your ideas
   on our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers).

MAINTAINERS.md

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+Maintainers of this repository with their focus areas:
+
+* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com>: Local storage; general code-level issues.
+* Brian Brazil <brian.brazil@robustperception.io>: Console templates; semantics of PromQL, service discovery, and relabeling.
+* Fabian Reinartz <fabian.reinartz@coreos.com>: PromQL parsing and evaluation; implementation of retrieval, alert notification, and service discovery.
+* Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com>: Remote storage integrations; web UI.
+