[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/23/2021 2:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> And that may be the real upcoming problem. Based on what has come
> out so far, it looks like there are serious problems in the Core team
> and none of them appear to have resigned.

It is clearly stated in the resignation that the core team does
not like to be moderated regarding code of conduct by the
moderation team.

But considering how many open source projects that has
thrived for decades without even having code of conduct
and a moderation team then it is not obvious to me
what the "serious problem" is.

Arne