I can verify authenticity of the quotes but I think this has been a misunderstanding.
I do not think John was attempting to lie here. I think, lacking an easily articulable reason (other than “insubordination”, which I believe was just John’s speculation about part of another member’s rationale), he was trying to tap into collective sentiment to end up with a concrete statement.
The “legitimization” is yet another formalization of the wanting to retrospectively summarize experiences the vibes were based on. I understood the “parallel construction” as an off-color joke acknowledging the retrospective direction but it was still a reconstruction, not a construction.
Likewise, I do not see a conflict between what Robert was saying – their vibes lead them to conclude that K900 was not attempting to reduce their bias in moderation.
The workshopping of statements during synchronous meetings has been a common practice. Since we have not managed to publish a statement yet, planning its preparation was natural.
I disagree with majority of SC’s interpretation of the observations about lack of impartiality of moderation team and consider the moderation team ideas of moderation superior to the SC’s, and voted no confidence based on that.
Here is a breakdown of the relevant votes (publishing approved by SC):
- Remove K900 from moderation team (passed 4/6)
- Ericson2314: +1
- Gabriella439: +1
- jtojnar: -1
- roberth: +1
- tomberek: +1
- winterqt: -1
- Allow K900 to be on the Nixpkgs core team (passed 5/6)
- Ericson2314: +1
- Gabriella439: -1
- jtojnar: +1
- roberth: +1
- tomberek: +1
- winterqt: +1
- Put numinit on Moderation (initially passed 4/6, later retracted)
- Ericson2314: +1
- Gabriella439: initially +1, later changed to -1
- jtojnar: -1
- roberth: +1
- tomberek: +1
- winterqt: Abstain
- Vote of no confidence of the entire SC 2025-09-30 (failed 3/6)
- Ericson2314: -1
- Gabriella439: +1
- jtojnar: +1
- roberth: -1
- tomberek: -1
- winterqt: +1