[steveklabnik]

Most of the crates being focused on are either maintained by the libs team already, or are authored by a member of the libs team. It turns out that the people on the libs team have written a lot of widely used and pretty solid libraries ;)

Nobody is forcing stuff on random crate authors; if they didn't want to participate, then that's 100% okay.

[dasmoth]

Thanks, that puts a slightly different perspective on things!

I still feel there's a slightly-unfortunate ambiguity in the linked announcement post, though.

[steveklabnik]

Totally, I hear you. It can be tough from both sides, that is, to people super heavily involved in Rust, they know these names, so the fact is obvious. So it doesn't get written down, and then when people from _outside_ of living and breathing Rust every day read it, they don't have the context.

Words are hard.

[twic]

I suspected this was probably the case. I urge you to make it very, very clear.

As a prospective crate author - and every programmer is a prospective crate author - i interpreted this as saying that if i publish a crate which people find useful, i might be getting an unexpected visit from the Rust Police.