[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/23/2021 1:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> It looks like Rust development is basically in meltdown as the entire
> Rust moderation team has just resigned.
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/rust_moderation_team_quits/
> 
> https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671
> 
> Perhaps the next language that comes along to replace Rust can focus
> more on the "implementing and improving the language" bit and less on
> all the drama associated with all the Code of Conduct stuff.
> 
> I make that comment because, so far, it looks like the latter is what
> this is about.

Maybe saying that Rust development is in meltdown is a bit let
us call it "TheRegister like".

All the members of the team that oversees that the other teams
follow code of conduct has resigned.

The teams that provide technical oversight, design the language,
develop the compiler and do the releases have not resigned.

Can they find replacements for those team members? Obviously
yes - it is not a team that require any rare skills. And in
fact they have already found 2 people.

Is the Rust project dependent on this team working? Maybe
I am old fashioned but I would say no. I think the Rust project
could do fine without it. Open source projects existed for
decades without such teams. That does not imply that
having such a team is bad - I am just saying that it is
not "must have" - whether it is "nice to have" or "useless"
is a different discussion.

Arne