Show member status (active/emeritus) and active years (#42)

Summary

Board members were a flat taxonomy auto-collected from meeting attendance, with no way to distinguish who is current vs. emeritus. With Guido van Rossum stepping down (June 2026), we want to keep him listed as emeritus rather than remove him.

Changes

Add a per-member page content/members/<name>/_index.md carrying status (active / emeritus) and years.
Add a custom layouts/members/terms.html that renders the Board Members page (/members/) as a roster split into Current members and Emeritus, each with active years.

Result: Guido appears under Emeritus (2024–2026); Carol Willing, Joanna Jablonski, Mariatta, and Ned Batchelder under Current (2024–present).

Notes

The years values use 2024 as the start (the site’s earliest meeting minutes are Jan 2024). Adjust the years: frontmatter if the board’s start should be earlier.
Individual member term pages (e.g. /members/guido-van-rossum/) still use the theme default and list attended meetings; the status label is shown on the roster.

Verification

hugo --gc --minify builds clean (no errors); roster renders Current/Emeritus sections with years.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com

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Writing new content

Hugo is not needed to be installed in order to write a new meeting minutes.

Write the meeting minutes a markdown file under content/updates/*.md, commit, and create the pull request. A preview will then be generated on Netlify.

The meeting minutes should be written using template provided in archetypes/updates.md.

If you have Hugo installed, a new meeting minutes file can be created by typing on the command line:

hugo new content content/updates/newupdate.md

This will create the file under content/updates/newupdate.md, and you can continue editing it.

(replace “newupdate.md” with the desired filename.)

Updating the Meeting Attendee List

The list of attendees is pulled from the "members" field in the frontmatter. By default, it lists all members of the Python Docs Editorial Board. If a member did not attend the meeting, remove from this list.

Building the static site locally

First install Hugo.
Run the command at the root of the repository:

hugo server

Writing new changelog

Use the template in archetypes/changelog.md.

The file can also be created using the command:

hugo new content content/changelog/newchangelog.md

It will create a new file under content/changelog/newchangelog.md. (Replace “newchangelog.md” with the desired filename).