Community mission

[eldruin]

Should this community stay as a "homeless care" for crates or rather transition into something more of a non-blessed but still prominent rust-embedded?
c.f. #4 #5 #6

Personally I would welcome making more out of this.
What do you think @rust-embedded-community/all ?

PS: @rust-embedded-community/all: I am the only watcher of this repository. You probably missed doing that since it was added later.

[thejpster]

I'm generally quiet as I have all my notifications disabled for 12 months (until May 2021) but I'm keeping an eye on this seem as I was one of those who came up with the idea.

To me the Rust Embedded Community is not just a home of last resort - it is a place for developers to put crates when they feel that their personal servers / GitHub orgs / bitbucket orgs / gitlab orgs / etc, give them a bus number that is unacceptably low. To use a slightly dodgy analogy, moving a crate here doesn't change its parentage, but it does perhaps give a crate lots of aunts and uncles (or "friends of the family" or "God Parents" if that works better for you) who can keep an eye on that crate and ensure it is never abandoned.

[ryankurte]

i'm definitely into the idea of bus-factor-reduction, as well as shared maintainership burden, and i like the idea of a somewhat blessed wider-ecosystem.

i wonder whether two stages of this could be useful, the first step being to add this org to the git repo and cargo package to improve bus factor for crates under development, the second being (adopting any standard for testing / whatever) and transferring repos in here to adopt shared maintenance? alternatively this could be indicated by flags of some sort or, only concerned with the latter.

(i created a rust-iot org as an umbrella for a bunch of the radio / driver work i do with pretty much the same intent, super glad folks are doing this and, happy to be part of it / on the maintainer list too if it's useful ^_^)

[eldruin]

(@ryankurte I would be very glad to have you as part of this org!)