Comment by josefx

> And if no Rust developer has time or interest in those eight weeks?

What if Linus decided to go on a two month long vacation in the middle of the merge window?

> I don‘t claim that it can never work (or it cannot work in the common case), but as a hard rule it seems untenable.

There are quite a few rust developers already involved, if they cannot coordinate that at least some are available during a release critical two month period then none of them should be part of any professional project.