Change README to markdown and move authors to AUTHORS

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang E. Sanyer <WolfgangESanyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>

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+MOTIVATION
+==========
+
+The gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev packages contain a collection of useful
+administration scripts particular to the Gentoo Linux distribution. It contains
+rough drafts and implementations of features that may in time make it into
+Portage, or into full-fledged tools in their own right.
+
+The gentoolkit-dev package is intended primarily for Gentoo developers.
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+gentoolkit
+----------
+ebump          - Ebuild revision bumper
+eclean         - tool to clean up outdated distfiles and packages
+ekeyword       - modify package KEYWORDS
+enalyze        - Analyze all installed pkgs or rebuild package.* files
+epkginfo       - wrapper to equery: Display metadata about a given package.
+equery         - replacement for etcat and qpkg
+eread          - script to read portage log items from einfo, ewarn etc.
+eshowkw        - Display keywords for specified package(s)
+euse           - tool to manage USE flags
+imlate         - Displays candidates for keywords for an architecture...
+qpkg           - convient package query tool (deprecated)
+revdep-rebuild - scans/fixes broken shared libs and binaries
+
+gentoolkit-dev
+--------------
+DEPRECATED
+
+IMPROVEMENTS
+============
+
+Any suggestions for improvements should be sent to tools-portage@gentoo.org, or
+added as a bug assigned to us.
+
+We only accept new contributions if they are written in bash or python.