• Partially helps with Add "poa_" prefix to return_components=True transposition model outputs #2529 (see for other relevant comments, in pvlib threads)
• I am familiar with the contributing guidelines
• Tests added
• Updates entries in docs/sphinx/source/reference for API changes.
• Adds description and name entries in the appropriate "what's new" file in docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew for all changes. Includes link to the GitHub Issue with :issue:`num` or this Pull Request with :pull:`num`. Includes contributor name and/or GitHub username (link with :ghuser:`user`).
• New code is fully documented. Includes numpydoc compliant docstrings, examples, and comments where necessary.
• Pull request is nearly complete and ready for detailed review.
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Threatening my mail inbox again, duh? Just kidding.

But let's give us the opportunity to make the renaming of all and any keys in returned dictionaries and dataframes be not a super, duper, user-angering, developer-exhausting, breaking change.

Key changes that come with this PR:

• A generator function of wrappers to apply to dict-like objects.
• A bunch of tests that, if you feel can be improved, please go ahead.
• A new contributing section, Python-proficient-contributors oriented, with the pvlib._deprecation functions listing. I've named it devops for now.

I understand if there are objections to the new doc page. Suggestions, like whole removal, etc welcome. Just wanted to propose making the docstrings the first place to check, rather than finding past or current uses to see how to use the utilities in that deprecation submodule. I was unsure of the best fit for that, so in the contributing section it went..

Regarding, the new func / wrapper, I doubt there are no doubts. Let me know any objections, concerns, or ways to improve either the implementation or the tests, not covered by the documentation.

As always, a friendly proposal. If you want, I can also add an example of how this would look like for #2529 (quick search didn't give any useful results of other issues that may benefit from this).

Handy links for every1

• New doc page: https://pvlib-python--2530.org.readthedocs.build/en/2530/contributing/devops.html
  • Doc page for the new utility: https://pvlib-python--2530.org.readthedocs.build/en/2530/contributing/generated/pvlib._deprecation.renamed_key_items_warning.html