Prune entries from the Experts Index

[AA-Turner]

We suggest and recommend using the Experts Index for contributors to find a relevant committer/core developer to review a PR or comment on an issue/proposal. Listing names of inactive committers, those who have left the team, or those that never moved from BPO to GitHub can create a frustrating contributor experience.

I've split this change into 5 commits:

• Remove all entries marked as "inactive"
• Remove all those marked "inactive" by the voters script (i.e. no commits in the last 2 years and no explict 'stay active' response)
• Remove all those who are marked as no longer a core developer (with a left = "..." entry)
• Remove all former BPO usernames (^ entries)
• Remove all those with no commits in the last 5 years, regardless of 'stay active' voter status

We can of course re-add people at any time, this is more of a housekeeping activity than anything else.

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(I've requested review from the currently listed devguide experts: @merwok @ezio-melotti @willingc @Mariatta @hugovk)

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[AA-Turner]

@tim-one -- Tim, you were caught in this because your entries for difflib, doctest, and tabnanny were marked as "inactive". Would you like to still be listed here for memory management and/or restore any of the removed entries?

[encukou]

IMO, starting with people who didn't make the GitHub transition would make this much more straightforward.

What about adding an “emeriti” table at the end (mapping names to interest areas), to allow restoring the entries quickly -- and determining experts (on things like original design choices) in case the person does add a comment somewhere.

[malemburg]

IMO, starting with people who didn't make the GitHub transition would make this much more straightforward.

What about adding an “emeriti” table at the end (mapping names to interest areas), to allow restoring the entries quickly -- and determining experts (on things like original design choices) in case the person does add a comment somewhere.

Agreed. I think this is also needed, since people would otherwise feel kicked out from their expert status (even when they don't contribute to CPython anymore, they are most likely still experts in the resp. fields).

It's also a way to thank people who have invested a great amount of time in those areas in the past.

[AA-Turner]

Please excuse the force-push, I've re-ordered the commits to align with @encukou & @malemburg's suggestion of removing pre-GH transition users first, and also adding a new "Experts Emeritus" section.

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