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.
- Additionally, while not related to this issue, based on our experience in moderation over the years, we suggest that the future Mod Team take special care to keep the team of a healthy size and diversity, to the extent possible. It is a thankless task, and we did not do our best to recruit new members.
In this message, we have avoided airing specific grievances beyond unaccountability. We've chosen to maintain discretion and confidentiality. We recommend that the broader Rust community and the future Mod Team exercise extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof) claiming to illuminate the situation.
We are open to being contacted by Rust Team Members for advice or clarification.
Sincerely,
The Rust Moderation Team (Andre, Andrew and Matthieu)
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Can someone give a rundown on the situation here? What's the deal with the Core Team?
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FOSS has a lot of libertarian roots
Yeah, this is what happens when you work with Amazon and expect them to act in good faith.
OSS, this ain't foss
So to clarify, the moderation team is working for Amazon? Or they've just fallen for Amazon machinations?
Andrew Gallants blog says he's a systems engineer at Salesforce (and makes clear the distinct possibility that he himself is what we'd calla chud), but it's unclear if this Amazon stuff is what's up. Would love to see the core team provide specific reasoning about why their mod team would do this. I distrust at least that the mod team really needed to not explain why they actually left. They should have at least tried to explain the basic impetus for their resignation instead of just saying that the core team is bad.
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Probably the last one, but I don’t have time to go digging in their LinkedIns.
Obviously this sounds bad, but what's in it for Amazon? Seems like any un-FOSSing amazon could do would be walked around and ignored, but also heavily protested, by the existing huge and established Rust community.
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I am wondering if this is related to the struggle in the past involving the core team and Amazon (see this thread; note that Steve is a member of the core team).
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