[kazinator]

[This is what can happen when you forget to delete your dumb HN comment before the configured delay time. Sometimes it gets cemented with replies and then embarrassingly upvoted.]

If they aren't coders and are "toxic" on top of that, get rid of them? Looks like a no-brainer to me.

People upvoted my clueless comment because the assumption is that any people called "core" of a FOSS project must be the coders, or else something is wrong.

[burntsushi]

There's an easy fix. Don't comment on stuff when you don't know what you're talking about. It's pretty simple.

If you want a hint on what's wrong, here's one for you: discourse on the Internet sucks in part because of people such as yourself making "clueless" comments.

[kazinator]

Thanks for the feedback. Because of the way HN works, it supports a "nonlinear comment development process". You jot some random ideas into a comment, which can often turn into a good comment after several edits (in which those ideas no longer appear at all). Or not: it gets deleted before it is seen: there is a configurable delay before your comment goes public. I was sure that one wasn't going to be (in any shape), but I had to respond to some urgent things. That's it.

[XAMPPRocky]

> If they aren't coders and are "toxic" on top of that, get rid of them? Looks like a no-brainer to me.

The issue is that, there is no process to do that within the Rust-lang organisation. The core team is only accountable to themselves at this point.

[bishop_mandible]

There is no process to get rid of them.

[kazinator]

The people who actually make Rust could simply disavow that Core Team.

I suspect there are reasons why it doesn't simply go down like that. Perhaps it's simply a lack of motivaton; or else hands being tied in various ways (invariably connected to money somehow).

Probably the best thing you can do as a FOSS developer is never grab any dollar waved in front of you and put it in your pocket, if you see so much as a tiny, barely discernible cotton fiber connecting that dollar to some people or conditions.

[MLafayette]

History nerd here: there are processes for when a leadership group no longer serves the public interest and is glued to their chairs.

[paleotrope]

Defenestration doesn't seem appropriate here.