2 years ago

This morning, the https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/moderation for the https://www.rust-lang.org/ resigned effective immediately. The resignation was tendered via a https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671, wherein team member https://twitter.com/burntsushi5 wrote that the team resigned “in protest of the Core Team placing themselves unaccountable to anyone but themselves.” According to the page describing https://www.rust-lang.org/governance, the moderation team’s purpose is to do just that — to help “uphold the code of conduct and community standards” — and according to the resignation letter, they are unable to do so, with the Core Team seemingly being outside of those bounds.

First, Gallant writes that the Rust community should “come to a consensus on a process for oversight over the Core Team,” which he says is currently “answerable only to themselves.”

The former team concludes their resignation letter, writing that “we have avoided airing specific grievances beyond unaccountability” because they are choosing “to maintain discretion and confidentiality” and that the Rust community and their replacements “exercise extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof) claiming to illuminate the situation.”