[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 11/23/2021 2:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>

So IOW, one set of rules for the leaders and a different set of rules
for everyone else.

> 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.
>

That's the old way of doing things.

In the new fashionable way of doing things, you are supposed to
declare how your language is a socially conscious language and
then bring along all the CoC and moderation infrastructure to
support that.

That's exactly the kind of statement the Rust people made BTW when
they setup the Rust language project.

Simon.

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