Now I’m sad that I didn’t go into personal thoughts on the details of what we’d propose, but I agree 100% with your thoughts on this, and have voiced similar things! The idea of a proposal process for API changes to core libraries is not some thing we’ve spoken about though, and would be good for helping prospective maintainers stay on track with the rest of the community’s needs. That’s an excellent point. Point #2 is almost verbatim what we were thinking our function would be with respect to these libraries: recovery and stewardship, with a strict non-moderation policy except in emergencies.