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Comment by voidr

2 days ago

We should have seen this post before Hector Martin got so fed up that he decided to resign(to be fair, he probably had other issues as well that contributed).

I was very confused by the lack of an actual response from Linus, he only said that social media brigading is bad, but he didn't give clarity on what would be the way forward on that DMA issue.

I have worked in a similar situation and it was the worst experience of my work life. Being stonewalled is incredibly painful and having weak ambiguous leadership enhances that pain.

If I were a R4L developer, I would stop contributing until Linus codifies the rules around Rust that all maintainers would have to adhere to because it's incredibly frustrating to put a lot of effort into something and to be shut down with no technical justification.

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dralley  2 days ago

Clarity was apparently provided privately. However, I have to say that a public statement would have been better. I can only imagine how demoralizing it is for the R4L contributors to watch their work being trashed in public and the leadership is only privately willing to give reassurances. Not to mention bad for recruitment.

zamalek  2 days ago

You know, the complaint is that R4L would add undue load to existing maintainers (at least that's about the only coherent technical thing I've gathered from Christoph's emails). What also adds undue load to existing maintainers is causing their peers to quit. Hector Martin is a talented individual and the loss of him will surely be felt.