The Rust Leadership Council

Posted Jun 21, 2023 15:13 UTC (Wed) by Subsentient (guest, #142918)
Parent article: The Rust Leadership Council

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