The rust-unofficial organization is a landing place for useful community projects which would otherwise be abandoned.
The nursery is an organization where official Rust project teams store projects in development that are important to the Rust compiler itself and its infrastructure.
GitHub's permissions model makes it much easier to share ownership of projects when they're owned by an organization.
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Keeping semi-abandoned repos in this organization helps offload the administrative tasks of managing user permissions to the Rust Community Team
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Keeping a repo in an org owned by an active team means that if all the maintainers disappear and someone else wants to step up, we can give them permissions instead of having to fork the project.
All Rust Community Team members have owner permissions on the rust-unofficial organization, and can help you add a repository.
Any repo that's in use helping the Rust community, and moderately up to date, is appropriate to consider moving to the rust-unofficial org. Documents, crates, and tools written in Rust that have Rustaceans using or depending on them all count.
If you're a sole maintainer looking to retire from your repo entirely, you'll need to find a caretaker for the project's maintenance before we'll transfer it to the rust-unofficial organization.
The caretaker doesn't have to be an expert on your project, but needs to be willing to take the initiative to reply to issues and act on pull requests.
The caretaker doesn't have to dedicate a lot of time to the project, but should plan on taking an hour a couple times each month to respond to activity on the repo.
If you are a community member who wants to see a repo saved from abandonment, you can be its caretaker! The intent of this rule is to make sure that this organization doesn't collect abandoned or "Somebody Else's Problem" repos. "Somebody Else's Problem" repos create a bad experience for contributors and for org owners.
Repos should contain a valid LICENSE file, because people aren't legally free to use unlicensed code. The LICENSE must be one which allows anyone to maintain and use the software -- any OSI-approved license is fine, and we'll consider non-OSI licenses case by case to make sure they allow us to add maintainers to the repo and distribute the code.
It should go without saying, but projects whose purpose or community violate the spirit of the Rust Code of Conduct guidelines will not be adopted into this org.
Join #rust-community on irc.mozilla.org and ask for help, or email
community-team@rust-lang.org. Include:
- What repo it is
- Who uses it / how it helps the community
- Who the leader/caretaker permissions should go to
- Confirm that the license allows modification and redistribution
- Confirm that the repo's purpose and content are consistent with the intent of the Code of Conduct
If the repo is suitable for inclusion in rust-unofficial, we'll first create
the reponame-caretakers team in the org and invite its leaders/caretakers.
Once they've accepted the invitations, we'll then have you transfer ownership
of the repo to the organization, and add the caretakers team with owner
permissions.
If there comes a time when a repo in rust-unofficial no longer meets the organization's criteria, the Rust Community Team may:
- Contact the repo's caretakers and suggest a way to fix the situation (solutions can include adding more caretakers, changing specific content, or moving the repo to another org)
- If caretakers don't respond within a week or two of contact, we may add other volunteers as additional caretakers to the repo
- If no caretaker can be found for an extended period of time (several months), a community team member may mark the repo as deprecated or transfer it back to you or to another org
If these policies turn out to be insufficient or unclear, we might change them. If you have any suggestions for how the guidelines could be better or clearer, submit an issue or PR to this repo!