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Rust Language Moderation Team Resigns

posted by janrinok on Thursday November 25 2021, @07:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the CoCs dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671

The entire moderation team resigns, effective immediately. This resignation is done in protest of the Core Team placing themselves unaccountable to anyone but themselves.

As a result of such structural unaccountability, we have been unable to enforce the Rust Code of Conduct to the standards the community expects of us and to the standards we hold ourselves to. To leave under these circumstances deeply pains us, and we apologize to all of those that we have let down. In recognition that we are out of options from the perspective of Rust Governance, we feel as though we have no course remaining to us but to step down and make this statement.

In so doing, we would offer a few suggestions to the community writ large:

  • We suggest that Rust Team Members come to a consensus on a process for oversight over the Core Team. Currently, they are answerable only to themselves, which is a property unique to them in contrast to all other Rust teams.

  • In the interest of not perpetuating unaccountability, we recommend that the replacement for the Mod Team be made by Rust Team Members not on the Core Team.
  • We suggest that the future Mod Team, with advice from Rust Team Members, proactively decide how best to handle and discover unhealthy conflict among Rust Team Members. We suggest that the Mod Team work with the Foundation in obtaining resources for professional mediation.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @01:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @01:32AM (#1200365)

    1. The node.js complaint was from 2017.

    2. The rust foundation was formed February 8, 2021.

    The foundation was formed after Mozilla laid off the rust and servo devs. So it was basically sink or swim time. Given that it doesn't look like anyone is using it for real projects (too much change between major releases over the last 11 years is a big complaint), it's really no surprise that the lack of stability in the foundation mimics the lack of stability on the development side.

    At this point, given the history, you'd be buts to commit to using it on anything but hobby projects. Or wasting time learning (and re-learning) it. The current kerflufle is just a symptom of an aimless project with poor leadership and a weak development team. Drama was always in the cards.

    Certainly don't bet your paycheque or your business on it.