Governance

Posted Sep 5, 2024 20:10 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Governance by acarno
Parent article: Whither the Apple AGX graphics driver?

I wonder why they think it's lack of social networks presence that makes them so low-key and causes “Meh” reaction.

They publish lots of words and tables and numbers… which fail to give me any useful information whatsoever.

In particular they wrote these exciting words, previously: “we are hoping we will be able to compile the Rust 1.49 standard library by the next GCC release, 14.1”. And that, obviously, haven't happened. That's fine, Rust is complicated language and it's hard to predict the future, but the question that I want to know, if that haven't happened, is not what do they plan to deliver September 15th, 2025 (something that this document does say) but when can I expect that publicly promised compilation of Rust 1.49 standard library!

That's something that this document doesn't really say and doesn't even give me any rough estimate: would that happen in next couple of months, in GCC 15.1, or maybe in GCC 20.1?

Who knows, that's basically not possible to estimate from these tables! There are just nothing to be excited about if you are not part of their team!

You may point out that these are very precise tables and dates like January, 28th 2025 or August 15th, 2023 should inspire confidence… except I couldn't see any missed milestones there and yet I still couldn't compile std… how could that be? Were these promised to make std compileable a lie or was there a misunderstanding… or maybe that achievment was actually done on time, but was never added to GCC 14.1? What have happened?

No answer.