Currently, the Release Drafter shows the contributors as a comma-separated list of GitHub handles, e.g., https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/releases:

When we make a release, we prefer to have a bulleted list with contributors' real names and links, like:

So we have to make the conversions manually which is tedious.

The Release Drafter provides the replacers option, which can search and replace content in the generated changelog body. I think we can use this option to automatically replace GitHun handles with real names and links. This can be done by adding something like below to the .github/release-drafter.yml file:

replacers:
  - search: '@seisman'
    replace: '[Dongdong Tian](https://github.com/seisman)'