[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/24/2021 1:45 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-24, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 11/24/2021 8:59 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2021-11-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> My point is that there are two different questions:
>> 1) is the "old way" still able to produce software?
>> 2) is the "new way" morally better than the "old way"?
>>
>> And I think the answer to question #1 is YES.
>>
>> Which means that the risk for Rust users is minimal.
> 
> You are making the rather naive assumption that people interested in
> pushing 2) as the way forward would allow the Rust development model
> to switch to the 1) old way of doing development and hence get rid of
> all the new infrastructure. :-)

But they are not getting rid of the new infrastructure.

If you read your own links then they already appointed a couple of new
members to the moderation team.

Maybe a large number of Rust contributors will revolt and force the
core team to accept being overseen by moderation team.

But I would not hold my breath until it happens.

Arne