Consider removing contribution areas from AUTHORS.rst

[AA-Turner]

cc @timhoffm per recent discussion.

[electric-coder]

I always liked the Contributors area the way it is so IMO leave it be. LGTM.

[jdillard]

Page in question: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/authors.html

Maybe change "Contributors" to "Notable Contributions"? I get that maintaining that list is messy per this comment, but sometimes messy is ok.

In addition, add the auto-generated list of contributors under a "Contributors" heading?

(Also, it probably won't help in this case, but a shout out to https://github.com/dgarcia360/sphinx-contributors for making it possible for Sphinx projects to attribute their contributors.)

[timhoffm]

"Notable Contributions" + some mention of total contributions (be it in names or stating that there are in total 743 contributors) is definitively an improvement. It gives a better perspective.

Though, what stays it the imprecision of the description of the kind of contribution, as well a subjective imbalance of "notable" (e.g. "Doug Hellmann – graphviz improvements" (7 commits) is listed, but the user jdufresne with 112 commits is not. - I haven't checked the quality of commits, but giben the significant different amount I suspect the latter should be at least as notable as the fromer).

I'd rather get rid of that as well, but if you want to keep the extra mentioning, the above propoal is the better messy one 😆.

[jdillard]

And were the 112 commits because the PRs weren't squashed and merged vs the 7 that were. I agree it's messy. I view the "Notable Contributions" as a nice to have, but do like the idea of some type of recognition in the docs (auto-generated or not).