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by crtc 1655 days ago
On a somewhat unrelated note: What consequences did the Rust mod team resignation lead to? The last thing I heard was the blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2021/11/25/in-respons...

But I haven't seen any public discussions on the future of Rust governance, how to make the core team accountable, or other consequences since.
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epage 1655 days ago
From what I've heard, they are still working things through. These things take time and we just had a holiday in the US.
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nojito 1655 days ago
The rust core team is/was never accountable. Which is fine because the language work is done elsewhere thankfully.
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skohan 1655 days ago
What about the former core team member who also raised similarly-vague alarm bells about Rust's governance, and Amazon's involvement?

I'm somewhat invested in Rust, and it's a bit worrying to see this from two places.

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epage 1655 days ago
He is a current core team member, not former [0].

I'm not too worried about his claims. His claim was about the Foundation being shadow-controlled by Amazon (they employed the board chair who had more influence while they lacked an Executive Director). The foundation manages the assets (donations, legal marks, etc) and has no control of the actual language. For Amazon to take control, theyd have to get the board involved and then leverage the assets against the developers. Nothing like this has happened and there is now an Executive Director.

When observing that incident, I noticed that those joining the bandwagon didn't seem to have direct knowledge of the situation. Those that did, stayed quiet or made general statements about the claims not being accurate regarding why there wasn't an Executive Director yet (interim or not). To me, this suggests something happened that, professionally, people feel should be kept confidential and I try to support that by not doing further speculation.

[0] https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/core

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nojito 1655 days ago
Why? The language related work takes place elsewhere.

The term “core team” is just a misnomer.

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skohan 1655 days ago
I mean, I am pretty far from all of that and I'm not really sure how it works. It's just generally a bit worrying when you hear from a few independent sources: "don't trust (X), they're behaving badly"
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epage 1655 days ago
To clarify then, the two groups made accusations against different people:

- A core team member made an accusation against Amazon

- The mods had concerns with the lack of oversight of the core team

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