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Rust Language Moderation Team Resigns

posted by janrinok on Thursday November 25 2021, @07:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the CoCs dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671

The entire moderation team resigns, effective immediately. This resignation is done in protest of the Core Team placing themselves unaccountable to anyone but themselves.

As a result of such structural unaccountability, we have been unable to enforce the Rust Code of Conduct to the standards the community expects of us and to the standards we hold ourselves to. To leave under these circumstances deeply pains us, and we apologize to all of those that we have let down. In recognition that we are out of options from the perspective of Rust Governance, we feel as though we have no course remaining to us but to step down and make this statement.

In so doing, we would offer a few suggestions to the community writ large:

  • We suggest that Rust Team Members come to a consensus on a process for oversight over the Core Team. Currently, they are answerable only to themselves, which is a property unique to them in contrast to all other Rust teams.

  • In the interest of not perpetuating unaccountability, we recommend that the replacement for the Mod Team be made by Rust Team Members not on the Core Team.
  • We suggest that the future Mod Team, with advice from Rust Team Members, proactively decide how best to handle and discover unhealthy conflict among Rust Team Members. We suggest that the Mod Team work with the Foundation in obtaining resources for professional mediation.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:41AM (#1200159)
    The moderation team was just 3 people. So not exactly a big loss. But here's the thing - why do you even need a moderation team? It's only 3 people, so it's not like they were doing much anyway. Seems better to let the developers thrash it out amongst themselves. Not happy? Vote with your feet. That's what people do all the time in the real world.

    OpenOffice/libreoffice and mysql/mariadb spring to mind.

    And if you want to go back in time, there's IBM/Ahmdel. And upteen number of linux distros.

    The annual budget is $300,000, so we're talking a VERY small team of paid developers - 2 or 3 (because there's also overhead). Jetbrains, paying $100k, seems pretty much in a position to call the shots. So who needs a moderation team? To keep the volunteer devs in line? Seriously? The criteria for code should be quality. If the contributor is a notorious white supremist or "all gays must die" freak, and is giving everyone a black eye and discouraging others from associating with the project, it should be easy enough to dump them because nobody is irreplaceable. Same as if you find someone plagiarizing code. Dump them and drop their contributions on the cutting-room floor.