Effective immediately I am stepping down from the Nodejs TSC

I missed all this, what did rvagg do? Why are some people upset enough to try to vote him off the island, and leave when it didn't happen?

    ....concerns were raised by several TSC 
    and CTC members regarding issues they had with 
    @rvagg's interactions in the Github tracker and 
    Twitter.

    The specific issues that were reported include: 
    [Note: the specific list of issues has been removed 
    at the request of several core collaborators...]

(elipses editing for brevity, full link here[0]

Maybe the offenses of @rvagg were really heinous, but from later in the link[0] they mention that the charter states they can only remove members by vote, through voluntary resignation or through participation rules (I assume that means they stop participating for some length of time) and that they took said vote to remove @rvagg after failing to reach consensus and the vote failed.

They are working on improving their existing code of conduct. Presumably to make it easier to remove people for whatever it is that @rvagg did.

Unless they just want to turn it into a pet project dictatorship (nothing wrong with that many successful open source projects are run that way - see the linux kernel for instance) then they need to follow the rules they set down and it sounds like they are doing that as well as trying to improve the rules to prevent whatever ruckus it is that happened internally.

I'm sure the OP has lots of inside knowledge that we never will but on the outside it looks like he would be better served by sticking around to work on the revisions to the code of conduct

[0]https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310

A lot of opaqueness for a decision that apparently affects the steering of an open project. A rather peculiar set of half-elaborated and [REDACTED] posts that doesn't tell the whole story and makes the governance seem pretty closed off. Strange.

https://github.com/nodejs/community-committee/issues/111 has a screenshot of the text previously in https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310 because "listing the issues was not fair to Rod".

I'm an outsider to this, but it seems to me that the tl;dr was that he was basically undermining the moderation actions of the TSC and CTC.

Seems he committed the cardinal sin of expressing support for Free Speech and questioning some aspects of Codes of Conduct.

One can not even question the codes of conduct, they are written on stone and are beyond criticism and questioning...