[cyphar]

I would argue that the people most impacted by the steering committee's decisions would be the core team -- who are the people that voted, and thus the steering committee model represents the will of the core team.

Obviously users will be impacted, but in such a tangential way that I would argue that it'd be more like how other countries are impacted by the decisions of a democratic country's leadership (and you wouldn't argue that Canadians should have the right to vote in American presidential elections). Just like the Linux CoC, I don't understand why people who don't contribute to the project should be involved in how the project's development is run.