Add signature to features
I wrote a patch which will allow users to enter an "Author" name when creating/updating a feature.
When provided, the signature will take the Authors value, if not fallback on standard workflow. 

Setting the signature was my goal and I succeeded.  For those interested, here is the patch:

diff --git a/sites/all/modules/contrib/features/features.admin.inc b/sites/all/modules/contrib/features/features.admin.inc
index a4203a0..3c5c913 100644
--- a/sites/all/modules/contrib/features/features.admin.inc
+++ b/sites/all/modules/contrib/features/features.admin.inc
@@ -168,6 +168,15 @@ function features_export_form($form, $form_state, $feature = NULL) {
     '#size' =&gt; 30,
     '#element_validate' =&gt; array('features_export_form_validate_field'),
   );
+  $form['info']['author'] = array(
+    '#title' =&gt; t('Author'),
+    '#description' =&gt; t('Examples: Patrick, John'),
+    '#type' =&gt; 'textfield',
+    '#required' =&gt; FALSE,
+    '#default_value' =&gt; !empty($feature-&gt;info['author']) ? $feature-&gt;info['author'] : '',
+    '#size' =&gt; 30,
+    '#element_validate' =&gt; array('features_export_form_validate_field'),
+  );
   $form['advanced'] = array(
     '#type' =&gt; 'fieldset',
     '#title' =&gt; t('Advanced Options'),
@@ -832,7 +841,7 @@ function _features_export_generate($export, $form_state, $feature = NULL) {

   $module_name = $form_state['values']['module_name'];
   // Directly copy the following attributes from form_state
-  $attr = array('name', 'description', 'package', 'project path');
+  $attr = array('name', 'description', 'package', 'project path', 'author');
   foreach ($attr as $key) {
     $export[$key] = isset($form_state['values'][$key]) ? $form_state['values'][$key] : NULL;
   }
@@ -1083,7 +1092,10 @@ function features_admin_form($form, $form_state) {
       '#disabled' =&gt; $disabled,
     );

-    if (!empty($module-&gt;info['project status url'])) {
+    if (!empty($module-&gt;info['author'])) {
+      $uri = check_plain($module-&gt;info['author']);
+    }
+    else if (!empty($module-&gt;info['project status url'])) {
       $uri = l(truncate_utf8($module-&gt;info['project status url'], 35, TRUE, TRUE), $module-&gt;info['project status url']);
     }
     else if (isset($module-&gt;info['project'], $module-&gt;info['version'], $module-&gt;info['datestamp'])) {