It is of enough importance, for me, that this initiative makes clear what is, after all, "the WordPress Community", who and how the project is managed. Although the aim is, I believe, to improve the legitimacy of the WordPress Community on the wider stage of the future of the web, it is a fact that collaborating for the WordPress project has become less gratifying for many people, due to the lack of transparency and the abuse of leadership.

I am not confident, to be honest, that there can be significant changes. (And this unnecessary and unhappy occurrence is just another example of this.) But at least it is something done in the clear, with acts and effects that can be observed, recorded and evaluated, and not a private channel where only the chosen have a seat.