I want to improve project management practices for the Rust Lang team!

268 points alice_i_cecile

I gave a talk last week at RustConf about project management in open source. I've learned a lot from helping run Bevy, and the language team (and Foundation) members that I talked to were very enthusiastic about taking some of those ideas and applying them to rust-lang itself.

I've only dabbled in contributing to the engine (and supporting infrastructure like crates.io, clippy and cargo) myself though, so I need help! Do you have:

  • great ideas?
  • strong opinions?
  • horror stories?
  • success stories?
  • little things that annoy you about how things are run?
  • details about how things work in your corner of the ecosystem?
  • assorted petty complaints?

If so, please get in touch so I can start collecting notes! Feel free to do so in the comments below, but if you're more comfortable, I'm more than happy to hear from you confidentially (DM/email/Discord) <3