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The letter was signed by the The NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee. The members of that committee are listed on their code of conduct site. Seems pretty transparent to me.

https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct#persons-responsible

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They caused a lot of grief to a particular person. It is only appropriate to sign their apology with their own names rather than a "committee", don't you think?

This is an incredibly petty complaint.

That was the committee at the time of writing. If anyone refers to this in, say, a year, they will have no idea who was responsible. As an analogy, transaction histories, if done in a DB, are not normalized because you wouldn't want the price and total sale of a past transaction to change when you later change the price of the items that were in that transaction. Sometimes, it's actually good to duplicate code/data/effort, especially if it helps to make something clear.

NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Team:

Leah Silen, Executive Director

Andy Terrel, President

Nicole Foster, Executive Operations Administrator

Walker Chabbott, Communications & Marketing Manager

NumFOCUS Board of Directors:

Andy Terrel

Lorena Barba

Jane Herriman

Sylvain Corlay

Katrina Riehl

Stéfan van der Walt

James Powell

I was wondering how much overlap there would be.

Why is the Communications & Marketing Manager on the CoC? That's one scary red flag.

There's overlap with the people on that Committee and the Board of Directors, so the transparency isn't exactly their intention

Sounds like The Code of Conduct Enforcement Team themselves need a code of conduct to operate against.

I recommend immediately establishing a Code of Conduct Enforcement Team Code of Conduct. And since any CoC is meaningless when not enforced, there needs to be a Code of Conduct Enforcement Team Code of Conduct Enforcement Team.

its codes of conduct all the way down.

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