I want to make two quick points and then I'm bowing out of this conversation as this isn't going to change anything for this vote beyond the exemption we have already granted and no changes to PEP 13 have been proposed. I was trying to avoid this conversation dragging out right now, but people keep commenting so I want to try and provide some visibility as to how this ended up this way and then ask people just wait until someone proposes something to concretely change PEP 13 (or at least that's what I plan to do 😉).

To Hynek's "code = vote" comment, technically it's "authorship or committal of a change in the past two years to CPython from when the voter roll was generated = vote". IOW you could have fixed a spelling mistake, merged a PR, or even made a commit and then reverted it immediately and still been automatically included in the voter roll. Basically the term "active" is very subjective and I did not want to be accused of being biased or unfair in declaring who was (in)active, so I did the best I could to be objective and automate this since there are 167 people who could potentially vote (and we ended up with 78 with the current set-up).

As for the "please email everyone personally", I just don't have the time to email 30 people that Giampolo listed or the 89 total people who could vote but didn't commit or author something in the past two years . But do note that me lacking the time doesn't mean someone else can't take it upon themselves to reach out to folks and let them know about them (risking) falling off in this vote or in future votes as all of this information and code is accessible to all core developers; other than Ernest's roll of managing the vote no one is in a place of privilege, just in a place of putting the time in. I personally have already sank days into making this vote work starting months ago via pulling together the historical record and spending all of my precious coding time at the core dev sprints this year writing the code to generate the voter roll, and so sinking even more by managing a personal email to everyone is just too much for me to dedicate on top of everything else.
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