new standard comment header for all source files

[orbeckst]

We need to re-write the current standard comment header in our source files to better reflect the changes that have happened to the project since its early pre-2013 days.

The current header reads

# -*- Mode: python; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode:nil; coding:utf-8 -*-
# vim: tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
#
# MDAnalysis --- http://www.MDAnalysis.org
# Copyright (c) 2006-2015 Naveen Michaud-Agrawal, Elizabeth J. Denning, Oliver Beckstein
# and contributors (see AUTHORS for the full list)
#
# Released under the GNU Public Licence, v2 or any higher version
#
# Please cite your use of MDAnalysis in published work:
# N. Michaud-Agrawal, E. J. Denning, T. B. Woolf, and O. Beckstein.
# MDAnalysis: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
# J. Comput. Chem. 32 (2011), 2319--2327, doi:10.1002/jcc.21787
#

@tylerjereddy is tackling the citation changes (#993) in PR #1001. However, given the overwhelming contributions from a big developer team it is not appropriate anymore that Naveen's, Liz's and my own name are so prominently displayed.

I would suggest something along the lines of

# -*- Mode: python; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode:nil; coding:utf-8 -*-
# vim: tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
#
# MDAnalysis --- http://www.mdanalysis.org
# Copyright (c) 2006-2016 The MDAnalysis Development Team and contributors
# (see the file AUTHORS for the full list of names)
#
# Released under the GNU Public Licence, v2 or any higher version
#
# Please cite your use of MDAnalysis in published work:
#
# R. J. Gowers, M. Linke, J. Barnoud, T. J. E. Reddy, M. N. Melo, S. L. Seyler,
# D. L. Dotson, J. Domanski, S. Buchoux, I. M. Kenney, and O. Beckstein.
# MDAnalysis: A Python package for the rapid analysis of molecular dynamics
# simulations. In S. Benthall and S. Rostrup editors, Proceedings of the 15th
# Python in Science Conference, pages 102-109, Austin, TX, 2016. SciPy.
#
# N. Michaud-Agrawal, E. J. Denning, T. B. Woolf, and O. Beckstein.
# MDAnalysis: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
# J. Comput. Chem. 32 (2011), 2319--2327, doi:10.1002/jcc.21787
#

Any opinions, fellow @MDAnalysis/coredevs ?

[mnmelo]

I think this is perfect.

[tylerjereddy]

Looks like there aren't any objections so far?

[jbarnoud]

I'm fine with it.

On 26-09-16 10:39, Tyler Reddy wrote:

Looks like there aren't any objections so far?

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[kain88-de]

Looks good to me too.

[richardjgowers]

If we're doing this, we might also want to consider the dynamic author list here, and change it to be completely alphabetical.