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Rust Moderation Team Resigns

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Re: Rust Moderation Team Resigns

#11
post #5

'Core team' as a concept naturally leads to elitism.

Does it? I am not familiar with the Rust language development but I read it as "team that takes care of the core (of the language)".

What is the core of a language? Is it the specification? (excluding the standard library?) Is it the compiler frontend or the backend? Or both?

Re: Rust Moderation Team Resigns

#12
post #5

'Core team' as a concept naturally leads to elitism.

Does it? I am not familiar with the Rust language development but I read it as "team that takes care of the core (of the language)".

From the website[0]:

> Managing the overall direction of Rust, subteam leadership, and any cross-cutting issues

This sounds to be more of an "executive team", but I am also unfamiliar with Rust development, so I don't know how accurate that is in practice.

0: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core

Re: Rust Moderation Team Resigns

#14
This makes me sad.

As someone who's used Rust but isn't fully familiar with the community, what would the expected roles of these moderators have been? Is it just forum moderation or are there other components?

Re: Rust Moderation Team Resigns

#15

Obviously there is a story behind this ("the Core Team placing themselves unaccountable to anyone but themselves"), but it's not entirely evident from the PR itself what actions led down to this happening. I guess somewhere a Core Team member broke the Code of Conduct but the deed went unpunished? I was expecting some references or links to where this actually happened, but couldn't find anything. Anyone know what ha…

They explicitly say they are not saying:

> 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.

With the earlier bit about the Core Team not having to adhere to the Code of Conduct, it could mean something awful has happened and a Rust Core Member is above justice or pressuring the mod team’s investigation?

Re: Rust Moderation Team Resigns

#16
> 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.

Isn't that a kind of scorched earth statement? I read it as "we will be discreet and don't believe anything anybody tells you in the future...instead assume all your worst fears are true".

Re: Rust Moderation Team Resigns

#17
post #9

This statement is inscrutably generic. Are there examples of behavior which went unaccounted? Or, what prompted this? Also, is it common for projects to have mod teams? This is new to me.

It looks like they've decided to keep the reasons secret and unaccountable.
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