# Scaling the Rust Language with Initiatives Josh Triplett 2021-07-19 --- # The Rust<br>community<br>grows rapidly --- # The Rust project grows steadily --- # Rust governance grows slowly Logarithmically at most --- # The governance-to-community ratio shrinks rapidly --- # The *language* should grow slowly --- # Interests and needs grow with the community --- # We need to scale --- # We shouldn't become less responsive --- # We need to empower people --- # Make more reversible decisions --- # Make more decisions reversible use the "experimental feature" flag more --- # [Lang team initiatives](https://lang-team.rust-lang.org/initiatives.html) Evolution of previous efforts --- # Roles # Process --- # Owner - Prepare the "menu" of design options - Make recommendations - Show analysis and alternatives - Work with others as needed - Provide updates at least monthly - Trusted with huge design influence - Can be a team member, but not the liaison --- # Liaison - Provide lang-team guidance - Feedback on the "menu" - Need for explorations or expansions - Decide when to escalate to full lang-team design meeting - Leave design work and status/coordination work to owner --- # Have an idea - Talk about it on internals, Zulip, etc, to flesh it out a bit - Ideally, identify a potential owner --- # File proposal on the lang-team repo - A lang team member can decide to be your liaison and second your proposal. - Once that happens, we will create a Zulip stream, tracking issue, and (optionally) repository, etc. --- # Explore design space, experiment - Owner, and potentially other contributors, explore the design space and develop an RFC - Can land code under an "experimental" feature gate --- # Finish development - Land code without "experimental" flag - Have "explainer" documentation - Liaison marks as "feature complete" when ready --- # Stabilize - Stabilization report --- # Persistent expertise - Owner won't necessarily do implementation - We want the owner and others to stick around - to guide implementation - to guide design of future interacting features