You're right, it's walking a tightrope. But they do put this at the end (on the Reddit post[0], not GitHub):
> we wish to ... focus on Constructive Criticism: how to improve the state of things, moving forward.
> There are many potential topics that are worth exploring:
> What should the Rust Governance look like?
> How should the Rust Moderation Team be structured? What should be its responsibilities?
> How can we ensure accountability and integrity at the top? Who Watches The Watchers?
and I don't see how these can be meaningfully discussed by someone who doesn't know what went wrong. You can't diagnose and find a remedy for a problem that you can't even see. So while the sentiment "let's talk constructively" is fine, in public at least it seems like a non-starter.
Note that I'm not saying that this means they should publish a tell-all either -- but it needs to be recognized that, without that openness, the divide between insiders and outsiders remains. And the outsiders can't do anything constructive about these questions.
> You can't diagnose and find a remedy for a problem that you can't even see
The problem seems clear to me when I read the Github pull request, they can't enforce their moderation over the Core team. The remedy they suggest is for the community to decide how the moderation team should enforce moderation on the Core team (or if they should at all).
What would talking about the issue give more? It will just polarize people and push toward a specific solution for that specific issue, while the actual issue is over being able to moderate.
> we wish to ... focus on Constructive Criticism: how to improve the state of things, moving forward.
> There are many potential topics that are worth exploring: > What should the Rust Governance look like?
> How should the Rust Moderation Team be structured? What should be its responsibilities?
> How can we ensure accountability and integrity at the top? Who Watches The Watchers?
and I don't see how these can be meaningfully discussed by someone who doesn't know what went wrong. You can't diagnose and find a remedy for a problem that you can't even see. So while the sentiment "let's talk constructively" is fine, in public at least it seems like a non-starter.
Note that I'm not saying that this means they should publish a tell-all either -- but it needs to be recognized that, without that openness, the divide between insiders and outsiders remains. And the outsiders can't do anything constructive about these questions.
[0]:https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...