Make maintainer documentation more direct (#103455)

Additionally fixes the "list of names and emails" to be a list of maintainer expressions.

A follow-up from the discussion in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/96666
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@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ hello-2.3 A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
A list of names and e-mail addresses of the maintainers of this Nix expression. If you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add yourself to <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link>. There is no restriction to becoming a maintainer, just add each new maintainer to that list in a separate commit titled 'maintainers: add alice', and reference maintainers with <literal>maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alice bob ]</literal>.
A list of the maintainers of this Nix expression. Maintainers are defined in <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix</filename></link>. There is no restriction to becoming a maintainer, just add yourself to that list in a separate commit titled 'maintainers: add alice', and reference maintainers with <literal>maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alice bob ]</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>