GOV reminder email for emeritus (scikit-learn#29691)

lorentzenchr · web-flow · commit f6871e80b1d1 · 2024-09-28T14:40:51.000+02:00
diff --git a/doc/about.rst b/doc/about.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 .. _about:
 
+========
 About us
 ========
 
 History
--------
+=======
 
 This project was started in 2007 as a Google Summer of Code project by
 David Cournapeau. Later that year, Matthieu Brucher started work on
@@ -19,25 +20,27 @@ copyright over the work done by people who were employed by INRIA at the
 time of the contribution.
 
 Governance
-----------
+==========
 
-The decision making process and governance structure of scikit-learn is laid
-out in the :ref:`governance document <governance>`.
+The decision making process and governance structure of scikit-learn, like roles and responsibilities, is laid out in the :ref:`governance document <governance>`.
 
 .. The "author" anchors below is there to ensure that old html links (in
    the form of "about.html#author" still work)
 
 .. _authors:
 
 The people behind scikit-learn
-------------------------------
+==============================
 
 Scikit-learn is a community project, developed by a large group of
-people, all across the world. A few teams, listed below, have central
-roles, however a more complete list of contributors can be found `on
+people, all across the world. A few core contributor teams, listed below, have
+central roles, however a more complete list of contributors can be found `on
 github
 <https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/graphs/contributors>`__.
 
+Active Core Contributors
+------------------------
+
 Maintainers Team
 ................
 
@@ -81,8 +84,11 @@ The following people help with :ref:`communication around scikit-learn
 
 .. include:: communication_team.rst
 
-Emeritus Core Developers
-........................
+Emeritus Core Contributors
+--------------------------
+
+Emeritus Maintainers Team
+.........................
 
 The following people have been active contributors in the past, but are no
 longer active in the project:
@@ -108,7 +114,7 @@ past:
 .. _citing-scikit-learn:
 
 Citing scikit-learn
--------------------
+===================
 
 If you use scikit-learn in a scientific publication, we would appreciate
 citations to the following paper:
@@ -153,7 +159,7 @@ Bibtex entry::
   }
 
 Artwork
--------
+=======
 
 High quality PNG and SVG logos are available in the `doc/logos/
 <https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/tree/main/doc/logos>`_
@@ -163,7 +169,7 @@ source directory.
   :align: center
 
 Funding
--------
+=======
 
 Scikit-learn is a community driven project, however institutional and private
 grants help to assure its sustainability.
@@ -337,7 +343,7 @@ The project would like to thank the following funders.
 
 
 Past Sponsors
-.............
+-------------
 
 .. div:: sk-text-image-grid-small
 
@@ -575,7 +581,7 @@ the past:
     |hf|
 
 Coding Sprints
---------------
+==============
 
 The scikit-learn project has a long history of `open source coding sprints
 <https://blog.scikit-learn.org/events/sprints-value/>`_ with over 50 sprint
@@ -585,7 +591,7 @@ to costs which include venue, food, travel, developer time and more. See
 list of events.
 
 Donating to the project
------------------------
+=======================
 
 If you are interested in donating to the project or to one of our code-sprints,
 please donate via the `NumFOCUS Donations Page
@@ -618,7 +624,7 @@ project [#f1]_.
 
 
 Infrastructure support
-----------------------
+======================
 
 We would also like to thank `Microsoft Azure <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/>`_,
 `Cirrus Cl <https://cirrus-ci.org>`_, `CircleCl <https://circleci.com/>`_ for free CPU
diff --git a/doc/governance.rst b/doc/governance.rst
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ Core contributors that have not contributed to the project, corresponding to
 their role, in the past 12 months will be asked if they want to become emeritus
 members and recant their rights until they become active again. The list of
 members, active and emeritus (with dates at which they became active) is public
-on the scikit-learn website.
+on the scikit-learn website. It is the responsibility of the active core
+contributors to send such a yearly reminder email.
 
 The following teams form the core contributors group:
 
