[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/23/2021 2:35 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

I could see a serious problem if the core team had resigned
and the moderation team had stayed!

Arne