From b999f7011c1fc96ec37c2946ed7393dd81d8a27b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tadas Antanavicius <tadas@pulsemcp.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:11:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add appeals@ Google Group for Code of Conduct ban appeals
 (#123)

Adds appeals@modelcontextprotocol.io as an email Google Group so banned
or external users have an out-of-band channel to appeal Code of Conduct
actions even after an org-level GitHub block. Mirrors the existing
antitrust@/catch-all@ email-group setup (isEmailGroup, no new GoogleConfig
fields).

Membership is curated explicitly (like the antitrust@ members) to the
current moderators and active lead maintainers, rather than derived from
the MODERATORS/LEAD_MAINTAINERS roles, since those roles include emeritus
and former members who should not receive appeals.

Co-authored-by: Tadas Antanavicius <tadas@modelcontextprotocol.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: David Soria Parra <167242713+dsp-ant@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/config/roleIds.ts | 1 +
 src/config/roles.ts   | 6 ++++++
 src/config/users.ts   | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/config/roleIds.ts b/src/config/roleIds.ts
index 464ab21..d47968d 100644
--- a/src/config/roleIds.ts
+++ b/src/config/roleIds.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export const ROLE_IDS = {
   // Email Groups (Google only)
   // ===================
   ANTITRUST: 'antitrust',
+  APPEALS: 'appeals',
   CATCH_ALL: 'catch-all',
 } as const;
 
diff --git a/src/config/roles.ts b/src/config/roles.ts
index dc0637d..df8ce6c 100644
--- a/src/config/roles.ts
+++ b/src/config/roles.ts
@@ -397,6 +397,12 @@ export const ROLES: readonly Role[] = [
     google: { group: 'antitrust', isEmailGroup: true },
     // Google only
   },
+  {
+    id: ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
+    description: 'Code of Conduct ban appeals inbox',
+    google: { group: 'appeals', isEmailGroup: true },
+    // Google only
+  },
   {
     id: ROLE_IDS.CATCH_ALL,
     description: 'Catch-all email group',
diff --git a/src/config/users.ts b/src/config/users.ts
index 1c36aee..7d7970e 100644
--- a/src/config/users.ts
+++ b/src/config/users.ts
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.MODERATORS,
       ROLE_IDS.SKILLS_OVER_MCP_IG,
       ROLE_IDS.WORKING_GROUPS,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -242,6 +243,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.MODERATORS,
       ROLE_IDS.SERVER_CARD_WG,
       ROLE_IDS.AGENTS_WG,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -278,6 +280,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.MAINTAINERS,
       ROLE_IDS.MODERATORS,
       ROLE_IDS.TRANSPORT_WG,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -381,6 +384,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.RUBY_SDK,
       ROLE_IDS.MCP_APPS_SDK,
       ROLE_IDS.TRANSPORT_WG,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -465,6 +469,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.SECURITY_WG,
       ROLE_IDS.TRANSPORT_WG,
       ROLE_IDS.TYPESCRIPT_SDK,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -590,6 +595,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.REFERENCE_SERVERS_MAINTAINERS,
       ROLE_IDS.SKILLS_OVER_MCP_IG,
       ROLE_IDS.WORKING_GROUPS,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -625,6 +631,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.MODERATORS,
       ROLE_IDS.SKILLS_OVER_MCP_IG,
       ROLE_IDS.INTERCEPTORS_WG,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -760,6 +767,7 @@ export const MEMBERS: readonly Member[] = [
       ROLE_IDS.REGISTRY_MAINTAINERS,
       ROLE_IDS.ADMINISTRATORS,
       ROLE_IDS.SERVER_CARD_WG,
+      ROLE_IDS.APPEALS,
     ],
   },
   {