The Rust Leadership Council

[Posted June 20, 2023 by corbet]

The Rust project has announced the formation of the Rust Leadership Council, which will take the place of the existing Core Team and Leadership Chat groups.

The Council will assume responsibility for top-level governance concerns while most of the responsibilities of the Rust Project (such as maintenance of the compiler and core tooling, evolution of the language and standard libraries, administration of infrastructure, etc.) remain with the nine top level teams.

The details on how this body is supposed to work can be found in RFC 3392.

The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 21, 2023 7:53 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

It's a good thing PEPs are not called RFCs. Because RFC 3392: "Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4".

The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 22, 2023 5:10 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Theres a severe shortage of TLAs these days.

The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 21, 2023 15:13 UTC (Wed) by Subsentient (guest, #142918) [Link] (3 responses)

Fun question:
Is the core team on the council? If so, nothing has changed.

The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 21, 2023 21:05 UTC (Wed) by jafd (subscriber, #129642) [Link]

Well, now that responsibility area is attached to a concrete name (and not a handle on who-knows-where), it's marginally better. At least there's some sense of where the buck stops.

I started wading into the document to see about how conflicts involving council members are supposed to be handled (they have such a section), but then abandoned it because not my circus, not my monkeys. Guess it's going to be drama-tested in a couple months time anyway, and then we shall see if it's worth a read.

The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 23, 2023 2:02 UTC (Fri) by raof (subscriber, #57409) [Link] (1 responses)

The council is the replacement for the core team. (My understanding is that the core team hasn't really been a thing since the blow-up between the core team and moderation team in 2021; the fact that governance was being ad-hoced by a intended-to-be-temporary “leadership chat” was a significant part of the recent fiasco).

The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 25, 2023 6:02 UTC (Sun) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

Yes, the main benefit of this appears to be that they now *have* a "real" decision-making process, whereas during the keynote fiasco, as far as I can tell, their process basically consisted of a bunch of individuals talking to each other over text chat and trying to guess what the group wanted, leading to a classic Abilene paradox.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox