On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 10:16:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Noé, > > Noé Lopez via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." > <[email protected]> skribis: > > > It has come to my attention in [1] that I know very little about the > > moderation of the Guix communities that are covered by its CoC. > > As noted in the ‘CODE-OF-CONDUCT’ file, enforcement is the > responsibility of [email protected]; the current maintainers¹ > effectively act as our “moderation team” in addition to other duties. > > I think it would be clearer have an actual “moderation team”, with a > fixed-term mandate, that would have moderation and CoC enforcement as > its sole responsibilities. (...)
Personally, I'm comfortable that for a small project having the "Maintainers" do this is appropriate. If there's a need to be clearer then in my opinion it would be better to clarify the Maintainer role, and to have it on a fixed-term mandate. We only have so much energy, and from what I've seen our light-weight "Maintainers" meet the current need. On Noe's ask, I think it's extremely difficult to to provide much detail on "moderation" since by definition when it's done well it should be done diplomatically, carefully and privately with all involved - assuming that all involved are acting in good-faith. Perhaps, it could something the Maintainers could report on at a general level as part of a status of the project update. On some cadence - e.g yearly. Effectively, there's a kind of update once a year at Guix Days. Of course, I realise that I'm asking someone to do work here - so it's just an idea. Steve / Futurile
