This so very well said - thank you Alex - were there a vote to recast mine flows thusly:
> I'm so glad you brought this up, because it seems equally plausible to me > that the other party could be reacting overly sensitively. > > This is precisely why it is a bad idea to set up an authority for people to > appeal to. In many cases it's not clear which party is the unreasonable one, > and it must be worked through with dialogue. > > If people don't have to work things out among themselves, and disputes are > instead handled by a committee of project maintainers, contributors lose > the opportunity to better understand each other. Oh, and that committee > of maintainers have all agreed according to the Contributor Covenant that > they have a responsibility to punish abusers, so they might find it > difficult to > avoid being biased towards punishing the accused. > > Software projects should focus on software. They are not equipped to > administer justice.
