diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index b7e03c2fb7b..3af7cb81da3 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
--- originally written by Eli Zaretskii, amended by Francesco Potort́
+-- originally written by Gerd Moellmann, amended by Francesco Potort́
+   with the initial help of Eli Zaretskii
 
 For each step, check for possible errors.