[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/23/2021 8:59 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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:
>>>> 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.
> 
> Well, sometimes in these things, there is happenings like MySQL and 
> MarieDB.

Forks happens. If developers feel the project is going in the
wrong direction.

The MySQL - MariaDB thing was because MySQL was sold to Oracle and some
of the developers did not like "the Oracle way" so they forked.

But somehow I do not see a team of code of conduct watchers fork
the project.

> What's next?  Corrosion?

That name is already taken.

It is the name of the Rust IDE (based on Eclipse).

Arne