“Decisions are made by those who show up.”

This gets said so much in WordPress. I don’t know if governance project is productive or practical or will go anywhere at all or anything.

All I know that two community members (respected, productive, well–meaning community members) showed up to do something.

And got, what... un–showed–up?

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t dangle openness and ownership of the project in front of community to get free work out of it and yank it away when community “trespasses” on inconvenient things.