[HN Gopher] NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Co...
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       NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's
       interference
        
       Author : TheFreim
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-09-27 20:00 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (discourse.nixos.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (discourse.nixos.org)
        
       | TheFreim wrote:
       | Explanation of the NixOS Steering Committee and NixOS Moderation
       | Team (https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1nrsu9c/nixos_moder
       | a...):
       | 
       | > The Nix Steering Committee (SC)
       | (https://nixos.org/community/teams/steering-committee/) is the
       | elected community leadership body. It was established as part of
       | the Nix governance constitution
       | (https://github.com/NixOS/org/blob/main/doc/constitution.md) last
       | year, after which the first elections were held, where 450
       | contributors voted for the current members. This years election
       | (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-election-committee-announc...)
       | is currently in progress. The SC generally is responsible over
       | project direction and community matters, including management of
       | teams. While most responsibilities are delegated, the SC has the
       | authority to step in when necessary.
       | 
       | > The moderation team
       | (https://nixos.org/community/teams/moderation/) was established
       | before the SC or constitution existed. The initial moderators
       | were appointed from RFC 102 (https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/m
       | aster/rfcs/0102-moderati...), with the mandate to self-select
       | successors. Over the years the team has changed members a lot,
       | none of the initial members are part of it anymore, and the last
       | larger rotation happened last year. The responsibilities include
       | moderation according to the Code of Conduct (CoC) (https://github
       | .com/NixOS/.github/blob/master/CODE\\_OF\\_CONDU...) of the
       | official community spaces, which is mostly the Discourse and a
       | bunch of Matrix channels. Earlier this year the now-existing SC
       | took on the responsibility of approving new mod team members and
       | CoC changes (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/code-of-conduct-and-
       | moderation...).
        
         | pizlonator wrote:
         | This feels like a lot of political baggage for an open source
         | project and a recipe for drama.
         | 
         | Is any of this overhead really needed? What does it accomplish?
         | 
         | (Serious question, maybe I'm just too dim to get it)
        
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