....concerns were raised by several TSC and CTC members regarding issues they had with @rvagg's interactions in the Github tracker and Twitter.

....concerns were raised by several TSC and CTC members regarding issues they had with @rvagg's interactions in the Github tracker and Twitter. The specific issues that were reported include: [Note: the specific list of issues has been removed at the request of several core collaborators...] (elipses editing for brevity, full link here[0] Maybe the offenses of @rvagg were really heinous, but from later in the link[0] they mention that the charter states they can only remove members by vote, through voluntary resignation or through participation rules (I assume that means they stop participating for some length of time) and that they took said vote to remove @rvagg after failing to reach consensus and the vote failed. They are working on improving their existing code of conduct. Presumably to make it easier to remove people for whatever it is that @rvagg did. Unless they just want to turn it into a pet project dictatorship (nothing wrong with that many successful open source projects are run that way - see the linux kernel for instance) then they need to follow the rules they set down and it sounds like they are doing that as well as trying to improve the rules to prevent whatever ruckus it is that happened internally. I'm sure the OP has lots of inside knowledge that we never will but on the outside it looks like he would be better served by sticking around to work on the revisions to the code of conduct [0]https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310 https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310