ugh, minor changes that I failed to push.

most notably add 2 contributors (Brad Lucier, Stephen de Gabrielle),
also some refactoring.

Author: jbclements

announcements/v8.18.txt

@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ Racket v8.18
 
 The following people contributed to this release:
 
-Bob Burger, Bogdan Popa, Carl Gay, Chloé Vulquin, D. Ben Knoble,
-Dario Hamidi, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jacqueline Firth, Jade Sailor,
+Bob Burger, Bogdan Popa, Brad Lucier, Carl Gay, Chloé Vulquin, D.
+Ben Knoble, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jacqueline Firth, Jade Sailor,
 Jarhmander, Jason Hemann, Jens Axel Søgaard, Joel Dueck, John
 Clements, jyn, Jörgen Brandt, Mao Yifu, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen,
 Matthew Flatt, Matthias Felleisen, Mike Sperber, Noah Ma,
 paralogismos, Pavel Panchekha, Philip McGrath, Robby Findler, Ryan
-Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Shalok Shalom, Steve Byan, Vincent
-Lee, Wing Hei Chan, and ZC Findler.
+Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Shalok Shalom, Stephen De Gabrielle,
+Steve Byan, Vincent Lee, Wing Hei Chan, and ZC Findler.
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

blog/_src/posts/2025-08-20-racket-v8-18.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
     Tags: release-announcement
     Authors: John Clements, Stephen De Gabrielle
 
+*posted by Stephen De Gabrielle*
+
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -29,14 +31,7 @@ We are pleased to announce Racket v8.18 is now available from [https://download.
 
 The following people contributed to this release:
 
-Bob Burger, Bogdan Popa, Carl Gay, Chloé Vulquin, D. Ben Knoble,
-Dario Hamidi, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jacqueline Firth, Jade Sailor,
-Jarhmander, Jason Hemann, Jens Axel Søgaard, Joel Dueck, John
-Clements, jyn, Jörgen Brandt, Mao Yifu, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen,
-Matthew Flatt, Matthias Felleisen, Mike Sperber, Noah Ma,
-paralogismos, Pavel Panchekha, Philip McGrath, Robby Findler, Ryan
-Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Shalok Shalom, Steve Byan, Vincent
-Lee, Wing Hei Chan, and ZC Findler.
+Bob Burger, Bogdan Popa, Brad Lucier, Carl Gay, Chloé Vulquin, D. Ben Knoble, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jacqueline Firth, Jade Sailor, Jarhmander, Jason Hemann, Jens Axel Søgaard, Joel Dueck, John Clements, jyn, Jörgen Brandt, Mao Yifu, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen, Matthew Flatt, Matthias Felleisen, Mike Sperber, Noah Ma, paralogismos, Pavel Panchekha, Philip McGrath, Robby Findler, Ryan Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Shalok Shalom, Stephen De Gabrielle, Steve Byan, Vincent Lee, Wing Hei Chan, and ZC Findler.
 
 **Racket** is a community developed open source project and we welcome new contributors. See [racket/README.md](https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/README.md#contributing)
 to learn how you can be a part of this amazing project.
@@ -49,6 +44,7 @@ Questions and discussion welcome at the Racket community on [Discourse](https://
 ## Please share
 
 If you can  - please help get the word out to users and platform specific repo packagers
+
 ```
 Racket - the Language-Oriented Programming Language - version 8.18 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org
 

release-notes/release-notes.rkt

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 ;; the markdown used for the blog post.
 
 (require "render-release-notes.rkt"
-         "check-links.rkt"
-         )
+         "check-links.rkt")
 
 (define major-v 8)
 (define minor-v 18)
@@ -88,12 +87,41 @@
   ))
 
 (define contributors
-  (list "Bob Burger" "Bogdan Popa" "Carl Gay" "Chloé Vulquin" "D. Ben Knoble" "Dario Hamidi"
-        "Gustavo Massaccesi" "Jacqueline Firth" "Jade Sailor" "Jarhmander" "Jason Hemann"
-        "Jens Axel Søgaard" "Joel Dueck" "John Clements" "jyn" "Jörgen Brandt" "Mao Yifu" "Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen"
-        "Matthew Flatt" "Matthias Felleisen" "Mike Sperber" "Noah Ma" "paralogismos" "Pavel Panchekha"
-        "Philip McGrath" "Robby Findler" "Ryan Culpepper" "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt" "Shalok Shalom"
-        "Steve Byan" "Vincent Lee" "Wing Hei Chan" "ZC Findler"))
+  '("Bob Burger"
+    "Bogdan Popa"
+    "Brad Lucier"
+    "Carl Gay"
+    "Chloé Vulquin"
+    "D. Ben Knoble"
+    "Gustavo Massaccesi"
+    "Jacqueline Firth"
+    "Jade Sailor"
+    "Jarhmander"
+    "Jason Hemann"
+    "Jens Axel Søgaard"
+    "Joel Dueck"
+    "John Clements"
+    "jyn"
+    "Jörgen Brandt"
+    "Mao Yifu"
+    "Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen"
+    "Matthew Flatt"
+    "Matthias Felleisen"
+    "Mike Sperber"
+    "Noah Ma"
+    "paralogismos"
+    "Pavel Panchekha"
+    "Philip McGrath"
+    "Robby Findler"
+    "Ryan Culpepper"
+    "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt"
+    "Shalok Shalom"
+    "Stephen De Gabrielle"
+    "Steve Byan"
+    "Vincent Lee"
+    "Wing Hei Chan"
+    "ZC Findler"))
+
 
 (define (go)
   ;; abstraction between these two OBVIOUSLY possible, waiting on this until the first time